Word: smooth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After Blue forward Jack Calkins had scored the normal aggressiveness of the Cantab rugby-footballers waned temporarily. A fleeting spark of the form they displayed against a smooth Princeton bunch returned five minutes later as outer Bill Dawson bounced a high pass to John Spivak, who headed it into the opposition ball basket...
Nonetheless, O'Neill is one of the finest theatrical craftsmen of his day, and Electra has a gnashing vitality. The cinemadaption is, as Playwright O'Neill himself concedes, "magnificent." The rough edges of the incestuous theme have been ground smooth in the dialogue without losing a jot of theatrical shock. The Grecian mood, though it echoes rather tinnily through the New England characters, reverberates grandly on the super-loud sound track, in what O'Neill calls the "sumptuous simplicity" of the Mannon mansion, in the classic drape of the costumes, in the still, pure lighting...
...faith in humanity, which many people may find hard to take, is personified agreeably in Barbara Bel Geddes, who is convincingly charming and pure in her film debut. The thorn in the side of Fonda and Bel Geddes's true love, velvet-smooth Vincent Price, complicates the plot by trying to seduce the girl and torture Fonda with an induced inferiority complex. For you see, he is but a working man, who little understands the complicated nature of woman. It takes a while, but Fonda finally realizes that the ladies are as simple as he had thought, and that everyone...
...sloshing into the saucer: stick a spoon in the cup. Now science has come up with a trick worth two of that. Last week Westinghouse proudly announced an invention which it called the most important since the development of the spring: a super shock-absorber system that promises to smooth out the roughest roadbed. Now a passenger will be able to stroll the length of the train without sitting on a stranger...
...after the Virginia massacre, Florentino has had one week to forget about Holy Cross pass catching for a new set of duties. With some experience at the middle of the line from Boston College High, Florentino has adapted rapidly to his old job and was sparking plays with his smooth tosses yesterday...