Word: stab
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brainchild of Switzerland's 55-year-old Professor Giedion-whose Space, Time and Architecture (1941) was a notable technical study-Mechanization Takes Command takes a tremendous stab at measuring the changeable human animal against the tools and technical appliances which have been associated with him from the early records of history to the present day. Professor Giedion holds that "the sun is mirrored even in a coffee spoon," looks for the truth about man in "humble things," and finds Hitler and Napoleon no more instructive than Linus Yale (locks), Clarence Birdseye (frozen food) and Sylvester Graham (bread...
...mild winter. Even the blast of snow and freezing weather that had hit Britain in mid-February had been rather welcome. Said a toothless Suffolk fanner: "The crops were coming up too fast. The snow put 'em to sleep. Now, unless a May frost comes along to stab us in the back, there'll be a bumper." Sheep Raiser Ben Alderson of Kerry, Montgomeryshire, had a bumper already; one of his ewes had just produced five lambs, a circumstance considered remarkable enough to be recorded in the stately Times...
...novel purported to be a serious treatment of the problem of marriage in America. The picture makes only a taken stab at this theme. Tracy solemnly remarks at several points that divorces are all to frequent, and a few brief scenes are tossed in to show just how nasty' wealthy middle-aged couples can be to each other. MGM does not venture further than this. Instead, it presents a moderately dreary love story and allows Lana Turner to run wild. She wallops a home run in a softball game, gawks at a specimen of modern art in New York, loses...
...swollen agencies in Washington live in fear of their daily bread and butter," said Professor Schumpeter, in a stab at Bureaucracy. He labelled the money used to pay bureaucrats "negligible" compared with the damage they caused...
There are several easy-hearted songs, some lines as quietly wicked as an icepick stab, and a few fine jokes. Good joke: at one point, Hope enthusiastically explains the rest of the picture: they'll Get-The-Papers and Stop-the-Marriage; "Boy, what a finish!" There is a frightful offscreen growling that sounds like a couple of nauseated tigers. Crosby, disconcerted: "What was that?" Hope, casually: "Oh, just the Warner Brothers; they're terribly jealous...