Word: shudder
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...recreate the life of a big city in a studio, as if under glass, instead of diving into the real city and taking its chances. Working so far from the real thing, it is easy to forget even details which could be remedied in a studio. When mourners shudder in a winter cemetery, their breaths ought to show; and if a hot iron is left on a shirt, the shirt ought to suffer the consequences. Yet A Tree Grows In Brooklyn is much more true-to-life than most movies; and much more likable as well...
...picture is directed to the last gasp and shudder by Robert Siodmak (Christmas Holiday, Phantom Lady), who was born in Memphis, Tenn. but developed his talent for terror in the great studios of pre-Hitler Germany. Notably frightening scene: suspicious Inspector Ridges re-enacting the probable method of murder for the appalled widower while the camera, taking possession of Laughton's brain, flicks from bit to bit of the scene of the crime, turning a dark wardrobe, a torn stair-carpet, into so many kicks in the emotional midriff...
...Democratic Statesmen whom I have learned to honor. . . . Our next President will be a Democrat! Our next Senate will be Democratic and our next House will be still more Democratic. No matter what the opposition says. . . ." This somewhat girlish enthusiasm was politely applauded by the grizzled Democrats, who shudder after each G.O.P. victory like trees when a King of the Forest is cut down...
...Sympathy . . . not pity but fellow-suffering. . . . The churches must lose their lives for Christ's sake and that of the brethren, become the hidden leaven of a selfless love in the lump of misery called mankind, go out and share the bitter things with not one timid shudder, or else be trodden under foot by men who have learned what life is all about...
...drama critic who loathes the theater, a clank who thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt, a killer who tries to look like Boris Karloff. Old hands at small-fry roles, as grown menaces the kids virtually never missed a cue muffed a line, threw away a laugh nor bungled a shudder. Down front a lot of their coevals were on the edge of their small seats...