Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...terms of the amended act. Mr. Manson was made the arbiter of whether any given piece of carving was a work of art (duty free) or not. After inspecting two samples by Constantin Brancusi and Hans Arp, Mr. Manson conscientiously classified them with Italian tombstones as dutiable stuff...
...performers, 400 horses, 160,000 square feet of canvas, Tim McCoy's Real Wild West & Rough Riders of the World made its bow. In Chicago the show seemed good but raw, mingled surefire thrills with extravaganza that fell flat. Flattest of all fell McCoy's cherished pageantry stuff. Amazed, McCoy could only insist that "it has to be there. It's like candles and Christmas." What went over big, besides the imposing grand entry, was straight action: cowboys with lariats climaxed by McCoy himself roping eight horses with one loop; Cossack trick riding, the U. S. Cavalry...
Mark Twain covered the same ground and water 50 years ago, so readers were not surprised that Ben Burman's novels (Mississippi, Steamboat Round the Bend) did not come up to Huckleberry Finn; surprising was the fact that Author Burman should find as much good old-time stuff as he has. His best find yet, the shanty-boat hero of Blow for a Landing, though by no means as much of a fellow as Huck Finn, is at least of the breed...
...Thou shalt not' attitude only makes things worse," he said, "and encourages the reading of pornographic matter. Feeding kids straight stuff gives them something to think about. It's good of Smith to want to censor the lewd and lascivious. but that isn't what happens. A constructive story on motherhood is banned, while sadistic and sex magazines are still allowed to lie on the stands...
...drama, Jezebel is slender stuff. One red dance frock in a ballroom full of white ones could not ordinarily be much of a shock to a cinemaudience. But by force of personal intensity and able acting Actress Davis gives her emotional crises a convincing importance. In fact she establishes her character so convincingly that few cinemaudiences will be persuaded that Julie's sacrificial fade-out is not just another foxy trick to get her man, dead or alive...