Word: sheen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Izvestia's bid brought swift, hot retorts from many a U.S. Catholic, cold disapproval from many a non-Catholic. Sharpest comeback was from Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen: "As Soviet Russia has already served notice that America and Great Britain may not interfere in the question of Poland, so now it serves notice on religion that it may not interfere in the question of Europe. From now on we may expect . . . a separate peace...
Less hotheaded Catholics hoped that Monsignor Sheen had not helped the Kremlin drive a wedge...
...horses and black explosions (in Director Alexander Dovzhenko's Shors) are still able to make any perceptive U.S. filmgoer who has seen only the best advertised native films wonder, seriously, whether he has ever seen a real moving picture before. These Russian classics shine against the cheap, easy sheen of most films (and much of this film) as nobly as a battle flag against the patriotism worn by a chorus girl for a breechclout...
...late autumn sun spread a dull sheen over the refuse-strewn waters of the Plata River. Slowly the small, grey minesweeper Drummond nudged against a deserted wharf. Down the gangway stepped a tired, disheveled, stubborn old man, Ramon S. (for nothing) Castillo, Vice President of Argentina from 1938 to 1940, Acting President from 1940 to 1942, President from 1942 until last week, President in Exile for one day, now ex-President...
From the competence of its camera work (much of it done in photo-effective Arizona sunlight) to the glossiness of its overall atmosphere (redolent of slick-paper magazine fiction), this picture is as Hollywoodish as it well could be. Once again, a packaging job of high sheen fails to conceal the fact that there is very little product inside. Worst error: Akim Tamiroffs irrelevant overacting of the part of an Egyptian hotelkeeper...