Word: shadow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Unless victory were won, there would be no post-war world for which Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, or any of the people they represent, would care to plan. But the historic meeting in Washington, the historic speech before Congress, had made the future a clearer outline, a brighter shadow...
...moored aircraft tender, blazing under repeated attacks, downed a Japanese plane on her own decks. Simultaneously her captain spotted a midget submarine's shadow within yards of his vessel. Hits were immediately scored and, as the sub's conning tower emerged, a destroyer administered the coup de gráce with depth charges. The tender then shot down a second plane. Motor launches from a vessel laid up for overhaul braved a steady hail of bullets and shrapnel, rescued scores of victims from the oil-fired harbor. Almost without exception officers and men exhibited quick thinking, coolness, coordination...
...sudden impact of the war has clarified beyond a shadow of doubt our immediate policy. The steadily aggressive power of the German and Japanese governments has got to be checked by force. On that much we are absolutely clear. But while it's easy to know what we're fighting the war against, it's not nearly so easy to know what we're fighting it for. It's here that we're dazed and bewildered. This is a war that we didn't want, for a lot of things that we don't particularly want. Why has it come...
...Shadow, the same couple, Nick & Nora Charles (William Powell & Myrna Loy), are still married, still in love, but the pace, bounce, snappy dialogue, the old fillip of murder and of amiable dipsomania have given way to resigned indigestion and middle age. Even Asta, their renowned beerhound who suffers nervous breakdowns, can pass a fire hydrant now without so much as an inquiring sniff...
...Shadow tries hard to make exciting capital out of Private Detective Nick Charles's solution of the deaths of a jockey, a blackmailing reporter and a racetrack tout, occasionally succeeds, more often falls flat on its formula. Actors Powell & Loy do not try as hard as the rest, appear to be just going through the paces. Result: a typed who-done...