Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cockeyed Miracle (MGM) and Angel on My Shoulder (Charles R. Rogers-United Artists) illustrate Hollywood's rather alarming drift-which may become an out-&-out trend-toward fantasy. Both pictures are lighthearted efforts to examine, with trick camera work, some of the problems of life-after-death...
Angel on My Shoulder presents Paul Muni as a murdered gangster and Claude Rains as the Devil. Aiming at satire with a touch of uplift, the picture succeeds in being vaguely grisly and definitely foolish. Actor Muni's natural dignity, which prevents him from appearing ridiculous in embarrassing surroundings, is all that saves the movie from disaster...
...Yale line played in flimsy blue jerseys which appeared to have been cut in strategic places beforehand, so that shortly after the game began they were hanging in shreds, many without sleeves or with protruding shoulder-pads. This was evidently calculated to demonstrate the ferocity of Eli's forward wall...
...father; 2) the name & fame of James Roosevelt's father. Jimmy Roosevelt was the magnet for crowds in the small northern towns as he and Will Rogers stumped them last week. Rogers needed the help. He was trying to carry the Wallace foreign policy on one shoulder and the Truman-Byrnes policy on the other. He was cool to the P.A.C.'s support, and there was evidence that the labor vote was sulkily indifferent toward him. Republican Senator William F. Knowland plugged steadily, made six or eight speeches a day, had already covered 38 of the 58 counties...
Once you got inside you aren't quite so sure. The faces are strange, the plays look more like the Chicago Bears than Harvard. One or two of the players bring back other days, but you're probably just about ready to tap someone on the shoulder and check your location when you catch sight of the indestructible element, the Harvard in Harvard football...