Word: shockingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rickety platform, high up under the vaulted ceiling of the Treasury Building, where he is painting a mural for the Government. His way of painting is as violent as his finished pictures; glaring angrily about him, he splashes paint all over his clothes, gums up his great shock of greying black hair, uses his thighs as a palette. His mural in the Treasury Building represents Siqueiros' own emphatic last judgment on Mexican history, in the form of a huge baroque wheel of horses and men. Mexico's liberators and heroes are seen speeding upwards into the vault; Mexico...
...trick to keep their coffee from sloshing into the saucer: stick a spoon in the cup. Now science has come up with a trick worth two of that. Last week Westinghouse proudly announced an invention which it called the most important since the development of the spring: a super shock-absorber system that promises to smooth out the roughest roadbed. Now a passenger will be able to stroll the length of the train without sitting on a stranger...
...cylinders and motor-driven screw-jacks. Functioning faster than a human brain, the mechanism goes into action the instant the car wheels hit a bump in the track or begin to rock from side to side. By adjusting the wheels to compensate (in three thousandths of a second), the shock absorber keeps the car itself on an even keel. It also tilts the car automatically to a comfortable angle as it rounds a curve...
...script are by Meyer Levin; direction is by Herbert Kline (The Forgotten Village); most of the actors are amateurs. The film is the story of a European boy who gradually comes to realize that he will never again see his parents, who were killed by the Nazis. With the shock of this realization, he regresses into neurotic infancy and is slowly healed by the knowledge that all Israel is "his father's house." Much of the story suffers from a painful kind of self-pitying, allegory-laden archness; the dialogue sounds like weak translation; the delivery and acting...
...more, she gets an even crueler comeuppance, without (as far as the camera can see) having much fun earning it. During the 140 minutes of the movie the famous hussy is never even kissed hard enough to jar an eyelash loose; and it comes as a mild shock when she suddenly announces her pregnancy...