Word: shows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into the tanbark of the Moscow Circus rolled a huge papier-maché head with bulbous nose, watery blue eyes and a patch of wispy hair made of brambles. This, explained Russia's famed Magician Kio, was the head of the U.S. To show his audience what went on inside the head, Kio unscrewed the top. In jumped a masked gunman in evening clothes (U.S. literature), a Western badman (Hollywood), two fat chorus girls (the U.S. theater) and three dwarfs (the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, a slanderer of the U.S.S.R...
...Silken Curtain. Over the "Voice," he said, he had heard that a fascist war criminal was being jailed by the U.S. "I am the kind of man," explained Berman, "who believes everything that comes from abroad." The suave Kio stood ready to show how unwise that was. Several workmen rolled a big cage into the ring. Inside was Adolf Hitler. Mumbling his magic formula, Kio lowered what he explained was "not an iron, but a silken curtain." When the curtain rose once more, the workers had been moved inside the cage, and outside, mocking them, stood Hitler. On hand...
Recently young Pierre Merindol, a freelance journalist, thought he would have some fun with Fèvre, get some publicity into the bargain. In the men's magazine Adam he described him as an "homme déshydrate" (a dehydrated fogy),* and got some friends to show the article to Fèvre. Fèvre's Bonapartist pride was stung...
...show not thy Bow Tie and thy White Walled Tire, lest thy friends shall be legion; for verily I say unto thee thou shalt know a tree by its fruits; therefore hear my-words thus...
Except for her way of speaking, Jennifer Jones does a fine job as the young Cuban girl aiding the revolutionaries. John Garfield hasn't changed from any of his other pictures. Pedro Armendariz is a sufficiently frightening villain as the Chief of Police. All except Garfield try to show that they are Cubans by talking without slurs or contractions, but this is more annoying than convincing...