Word: slow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stalin was up front, on the tiered dais which faced the assembly. He walked in with his customary slow, firm, dignified tread, wore his customary beige uniform with the wide, red, single-starred marshal's shoulder boards. His appearance? Reported TIME Correspondent John Walker, who was there: "I only hope I can look as well if and when I reach...
Hollywood's go-slow attitude is not mere stubbornness; there are many hurdles to leap, many jitters to calm before the movies and television can make beautiful pictures together. James C. Petrillo's A.F.M. forbids the televising of any major films-past or present-using union musicians. Result: only B pictures or antiques reach the telescreen. Another factor: cautious, fiercely competitive Hollywood moves slowly-as it did in taking up sound 21 years ago. The highest hurdle is the real, ever-present fear that the living room teleset will make a deep dent in the nation...
...sometimes customers send up a free drink to him, and he thanks them kindly for it. Jimmy hopes to keep right on playing "as long as they want me." He doesn't mind what he has missed. "I'm doin' fine," says he in his slow, lazy way. "At the old bear trap they used to give me fifty a week for playin'. In 30 years I come ahead 37 bucks...
...could have been one of the most lusciously beautiful movies on record. Even as it stands, it is an entertaining eyeful. Unfortunately, the production occasionally becomes too slow, and too nearly a literal-minded play. It would be much more real if it were less realistic. Apparently Producer-Director Korda was afraid to stylize the picture completely and so slowed up the lines for the general audience. These lines were meant for sleight-of-hand delivery; too often the players draw a diagram of how the rabbit got into...
Parcels & Patience. This attitude changed later. The first time Renault was picked up, with his pockets bulging with dispatches, he talked so fast and furiously that his slow-witted examiner gave up and let him go without even searching him. After his network had been sending out messages for several months, the Gestapo located one of his transmitters. Instead of keeping it under observation they arrested the operator at once. This, he says, was typical. "Their haste to make a single arrest, when in most cases . . . patience in watching the man would have brought in a good haul...