Word: slant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story was scripted by Director Huston and Peter Viertel from an episode in the novel Rough Sketch by Robert Sylvester. It concerns the hard-jawed heroics of a young Cuban-American revolutionist (John Garfield), who recruits a handful of assistant revolutionaries, including a slant-eyed girl named China Valdes (Jennifer Jones). Garfield puts his crew to work digging a tunnel from the cellar of Jennifer's home to a nearby cemetery. His lurid plan: to blow the dictator and his cabinet to smithereens as they stand about the family tomb of a bigwig senator whom Garfield has already earmarked...
Historical Slant...
Handwriting Analyst Muriel Stafford is right as far as she goes in analyzing Dean Acheson's "left-slanted" script [TIME, April 4], but she does not go far enough. History shows that none of the men who have distinguished themselves on the political scene, at any time, wrote a left-slant. Nor did a single one of them have low, "modest" capitals. They wrote a right-slant, were outgoing, and interested in "the greatest good for the greatest number." The left-slanter is, primarily, concerned with the "choice...
...acting is superb. Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller are a comedy team on a par with Coward and Lawrence, and give the Pygmalion Galatea story an hilarious slant the Greeks could never have envisioned...
Sidney Howard; produced by John Golden), when it won the Pulitzer Prize in the mid-'20s, had a fresh slant and a fine cast (Richard Bennett, Pauline Lord and Glenn Anders). Revived without luster in 1939, it seemed sadly dated. Dumped down on Broadway last week, it seemed all but dead...