Word: street
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...themselves, Amateur Verne Alkire walked away with three prizes. But her conventional paintings of boats in a harbor, gladiolas, and a nursery, daubed between kitchen and barnyard duties, were no closer to the Illinois prairies than ex-Coastguardman Garo Antreasian's carefully composed painting of a sordid street in Indianapolis' South Side, which took grand prize at the Old Northwest...
Playing a paunchy, mother-dependent killer, Cagney empties his pistol into his victim with the calm, preoccupied expression of a pedestrian waiting for a street light to change. There is none of the shock technique of The Public Enemy -no audience-deafening gun blasts, no close-ups of the killer's eyes or of the sickening sprawl of the corpse. The new brutality is streamlined. .White Heat is sprinkled with an improved type of wrist action in blackjacking, so effective that the camera does not even bother to examine the victim. The traditional movie chase, with its essentially simple...
...carryings-on centering around Mrs. Kirby's boardinghouse on West Chestnut Street, where 18-year-old Elliot Paul lived for seven months in 1909, are as lurid and complex as the plot of a Faulkner novel, and though they are reported as unembellished fact, considerably less convincing. Scattered among accounts of excursions to local bars and bordellos, political picnics, Shriners conventions and early jazz sessions, are the tragedies of boardinghouse friends such as Donna Guillermina, a wandering Spanish aristocrat who died of eating too much burgoo at a political rally. Minor Paul characters are shot by suspicion-crazed alcoholic...
...deep-chested, dim-witted fashion, Mature loves his wife. But Lizabeth loves nothing but penthouses, stylish parties and Wall Street wolves who, for a consideration, can boost her to success as an interior decorator. Her pushing ways cost Mature a chance for a secure job as football coach at the state college. The job goes instead to his buddy and teammate, Sonny Tufts...
Roving, rotund Elliot Paul has focused his shrewd eyes on a good many different communities in his 58 years. What he saw in the doomed Balaeric village of Santa Eulalia made moving reading in The Life and Death of a Spanish Town. One short street on the Left Bank furnished material for a bawdy but penetrating look at pre-war France in The Last Time I Saw Paris...