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...appraisal: McCarthy is "a major liability to the cause of anti-Communism." By making it harder for real Communist-fighters to operate effectively, wrote Woltman, McCarthy has actually become an asset to Communism. "He has introduced a slambang, rabble-rousing, hit-and-run technique into the serious business of exposing the Communist conspiracy . . . and thereby disarranged...
Their applause was tremendous and well-deserved; no lace pants, just slambang tennis, and there will be more of the same at 8:15 tonight...
Viva Zapafa! (20th Century-Fox) is a delayed cinematic footnote to MGM's slambang Viva Villa (1934), in which Wallace Beery sweatily portrayed Mexico's bandit patriot. Villa's revolutionary ally to the south in the bloody 1911-19 uprisings was fiery Emiliano Zapata, nicknamed "the Tiger...
...Cleveland. But the treaty was not uppermost in Douglas MacArthur's mind that night. Though he took due note of Japan's recovery and return to sovereignty, and though he insisted that he had "neither partisan affiliation nor . . . political purpose," the burden of his message was a slambang, frankly political assault on the Democratic Administration and all its works...
Director Michael Curtiz sparks The Breaking Point's slambang action with realistic, underplayed sequences of growing tension. Besides stinging melodrama, the film offers some unusual dividends. Its love story involves the hero with-of all people-his wife, and it is played with a passion that U.S. movies never seem to find in married couples who have school-age children. In the other woman (Patricia Neal), who gets nowhere with Morgan, the script fashions an acid, quip-studded portrait of a smart tart on the make...