Word: shiftly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...important lines to cut were the lateral lines, which the enemy used to shift power from sector to sector of the front. Last week the Russians struck at Germany's lateral lines in four places...
Last week the balance of power and responsibility within the British Commonwealth of Nations shifted. The Dominions loomed a little larger, London a little smaller. It was a slight shift; the bulk of the power to make war decisions and nearly all the responsibility remained in London; but any change at all foretold greater ones to come...
Alfred Hitchcock once said that it would be an interesting experiment to make a Keystone Cop sequence--the regular stuff, with the cops running around batting one another and everyone else on the head; and then suddenly, without any warning, to shift the mood--have one of the cops thrown out on the street, blood pouring from his face, his body writhing in agony. Hitchcock was interested in seeing what the audience's reaction would be. Though Preston Sturges undoubtedly had different motives, it is precisely this sort of thing that he does in "Sullivan's Travels." If at times...
...them proceed out together on Sullivan's travels. At first it is pure comedy, and excellent comedy at that. But then, in a long, silent sequence, Mr. Sturges inserts a serious documentary account of the hobo's life. This in itself is beautifully done, but the sudden shift leaves the audience wondering for a short time just what is going on. Then comes more comedy, until again there is a sudden change of scene and mood, and the action is in a chain-gang prison camp, thoroughly brutal and realistic, without the slightest trace of comedy. Then back...
...successful first year, when Austie Harding captained the Crimson there followed two drab years in which a Harvard team failed to win a single League game. This year's squad was shaping up as a much better aggregation, but how much its development will be retarded by this shift is as yet uncertain...