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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They have used this perception to shore up a plot which many people thought confusing. In Michael Roemer's story, which admittedly rests on "certain basic incongruities," characters and situations refuse to act predictably: a sad-eyed suicide breaks off knifing himself in a graveyard to retrieve a little girl's balloon; the hero loses his girl to his boss, and finds her married to the boss's chauffeur. Roemer has tried to knit the pace and problems of contemporary life into the limitations of a silent film; disunity and exaggeration result...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...last night before reaching shore, passengers followed the old tradition of putting on ship's variety shows. The "Volendam" ended one trip with a skit called "North Atlantic," featuring the music of "South Pacific"; a "Scythia" production led with the verse...

Author: By Maxwell E. Foster jr., | Title: Thousands of US Students Migrate To Europe for Summer Study, Play | 10/13/1949 | See Source »

...idea," explained Joseph van der Straeten, mine host at La Paix tavern in Belgium's seaside city of Knocke, "was to float slowly over the beach so that everyone could see me, then drop a trail rope to a waiting launch which would tow me back to shore. Generally speaking, it is a good idea. I've done it more than 60 times before. But this time it was not a good idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERIPATETICS: Flight by Moonlight | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

Gourmets. In Troy, N.Y., three recaptured prisoners explained why they had escaped from Cheshire County (N.H.) jail: "Fried potatoes, day after day, meal after meal." Near Orillia, Ont., Walter Richmond told police that when he remarked to Restaurant Owner Harry Shore that the hamburger was cold, Shore shot him in the ankle with a .32 revolver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 12, 1949 | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

...make things bearable for him. She was a hustler who lived in the same cheap rabbit warren of a rooming house, earned her living in saloons where she got a percentage on the drinks her customers bought. But there were times when even Molly's affection failed to shore him up. Then his sense of guilt became, in his dreams, a 35-lb. monkey that he lugged around on his back. In the Army, morphine had eased the pain from a piece of shrapnel in his liver. Afterwards, Frankie took to the needle because it was easier than coping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Lower Depths | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

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