Word: semi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Street with No Name (20th Century-Fox) is still another of Fox's well-made semi-documentaries (Call Northside 777, Boomerang!, etc.). This time the story is based on FBI files. The subject: postwar gangsterism...
Street is a workmanlike, exciting show, but basically it does not seem different enough from a lot of crime fiction to be worth all the documentary bother. Semi-documentaries are verging, in fact, toward formula. If they are to realize their fine potentialities-or even stay as good as they started, they need new ideas and new problems. Self-repetition is not immediately fatal; but it brings death to the door, and leaves the door on the latch...
...Atomic Energy Commission submitted last week a semi-annual report on work-in-progress that did not report very much...
...considers the house "the most interesting and exciting Pinto Man discovery to date." He thinks it was built about 8,000 years ago, when the Mojave Desert was a wooded, fertile land, teeming with game. The people who lived in it were obviously no mere nomads, but led a semi-settled life, probably living in tight little clans. No cooking had been done in the house, but near it was the charcoal and burned-bone fragments of a large campfire site, apparently shared by several families...
...cheers for Christ the King, cheers for the Virgin of Guadalupe. When the speaker shouted: "Who robs Mexico of its oil?" the crowd would answer: "The U.S." "Who takes the products of Mexico's mines?" "The U.S." "Who keeps Mexico poor?" "The U.S." For a long time the semi-fascist, ultra-nationalist Sinarquistas had spent most of their energies on religious revivalism and vague talk of a corporate state based on the Führer principle. But last week, by presenting the names of 46,270 members, they qualified as a Mexican political party under the name of Fuerza...