Word: shots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sommer's bunker-where, according to former SS Judge Konrad Morgen, Sommer kept a secret compartment, concealed in the floor under his desk, to hide torture instruments and the needles with which he shot carbolic acid and air into his victims' veins. Sommer often laid the bodies beneath his bed for the night...
...Academy (Chen took an instant dislike to a flashy young political instructor named Chou En-lai), then gave him the toughest combat assignments. Told to make order out of the postwar mess in Manchuria, Chen invited Manchurians to bring their complaints straight to him, and reportedly had 20 generals shot for stealing. Invalided south for a series of stomach-ulcer operations, he was ordered to Formosa to prepare for the Nationalist retreat, and arrived in the midst of much highhanded Nationalist treatment of the local population. Formosans remember him as their best Chinese governor, a man who "made no promises...
...also knew where his genius lay, wisely rejected both the Wagnerian influence and the broader version of the Italian verismo style as practiced by Mascagni and Leoncavallo. Instead, he clung to his own romantic, melodious, bittersweet tales shot through with a uniquely warm lyricism and underscored with lushly singing strings. A painstaking workman who admired clarity ("The black scores," he said, "are the easiest to fake"), he left as his legacy only eleven operas. But 34 years after his death, the world of opera has not found a composer who can speak to the universal audience Puccini commands...
...straightaway, Clem shot past favored Bold Ruler in the $83,400 Suburban Handicap at Belmont, headed for a fine upset finish. But ancient (42) Eddie Arcaro was aboard Bold Ruler, who was laboring under a whopping 134 pounds. Arcaro coaxed another ounce of will out of Bold Ruler, and the horse surged past Clem to win by a nose...
...another color. Metro-color is what they call it, and it sure is loud. There is probably nothing more than gold in them thar hills, but to look at the screen, anybody might think there was neon. Still, the Sierra Nevada, in which much of the film was shot, is pretty hard to spoil. Its purple mountain majesties look down in mineral calm upon what is probably the most stupendous avalanche of clichés to roll across the screen since the last major western was released...