Word: shading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stories queerly human, may be surprised to find many of them bitter, strong, ironic stuff. Because they are written in pai-hua, China's national cussword appears frequently. A mild-seeming expression, "his mother's" (shortened form of "rape your mother") is apparently used to express any shade of any emotion...
...companion picture, "Wings of the Morning" serves to introduce to the moviegoing public a new and delightful personality - Annabella. A sympathetic performer with a simple, winning charm. She dominates the film from beginning to end, throwing Henry Fonda's performance into the shade...
There was something in President Roosevelt's tone of voice when he talked on Thursday night about the national problem of the Supreme Court at the Party dinner that frankly got under our skin. For not only was every rank and shade of economic royalist run through the hoops of the circus--master's magnificent invective, but the nine old guinca pigs were asked to perform a lot of experiments that even nine humans couldn't in reason be asked to go through, much less a body of lawyers...
...present issue reflects this policy. The writers give the impression of moving only so far as the ground seems firm under foot. And though there are few "flashes of light and anger," of passion and oracularity, there is also a healthy freedom from captiousness snobbery and the gloomy shade of Eugene Jolas...
...contains an unspeakably rich heroine who alternates between haughtiness and condescension, and that part is thrust upon Madelcine Carrol. Miss Carrol is an excellent actress, and having made the transition from English society to Hollywood, she is able to adapt herself to almost anything. Still, there is always the shade of an indication that she is stooping and knows it. She has suffered worse at the hands of other heroes than Dick Powell, and she suffers to perfection. But previously her sufferings have been noble; the petty indignities of this role she does not take so well...