Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...behest of the President, Secretary of State George Marshall had again & again deferred his retirement. White House aides let the word drop that the President might now reluctantly let him go-and Under Secretary Robert Lovett with him. Among Democratic politicos there was little doubt that the ax was sharp for Army Secretary Kenneth Royall, who had remarked that Harry Truman's re-election was not "essential" to the national defense...
Inside the city's 40-ft.-thick walls, civilians clustered at the doors of tight-packed rows of shops. The bandaged heads of soldiers stood out in sharp relief among the crowds. Every few hundred yards our car passed soldiers hobbling on crutches or canes. Most of Taiyuan's factories are still working-the arsenal, largest below the Great Wall, at full capacity; the cotton mills, machine-tool works, cigarette factories and soda works at reduced output for lack of raw materials. The shops were filled with all kinds of goods-except food...
...Times readers would prefer Britain's flyweight four-page dailies. But some of them-and some readers of other bulky U.S. papers-would certainly like the Times's air edition for U.N. delegates at Paris. It managed (by sharp editing and leaving out ads) to get all the news that's fit to print into 12 to 16 pages...
...this is told in flashback; now the seer's alarm is focused on Virginia's grown-up daughter (Gail Russell). He becomes entangled in a whole chain of symbolic predictions about her: a crushed flower, shaken windows, violent death in starlight at 11 sharp, at the feet of a lion. Gail's scientific sweetheart (John Lund), Detective Shawn (William Demarest) and various shifty-looking businessmen who might profit by Gail's death, all act as if Robinson were crazy or criminal. Everybody tries to keep him away from the menaced young woman he is trying...
...matter of fact, the picture drags on too long after its climax, frittering away the power it has built up. Despite these shortcomings, Director and Co-Adaptor Jean Delannoy has a picture that he can be proud of. Against the crisp beauty of Alpine backgrounds, caught with a sharp pictorial eye, he has also caught the sorrow and frustration of the picture's real setting-the shadowy corners of the human heart...