Word: suggestive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even-more-exciting crises. Sitting with a caller in his upstairs study he sometimes pushes his freewheeling chair back from his cluttered desk and sits still for a minute chewing reflectively on the tip of his cigaret holder. At such moments the deep lines in Roosevelt's face suggest that he is listening to some sound that pleases him-as though the subdued hum of the household behind the closed door, the murmur of the capital beyond the curtained windows, and further away still the vast chatter of the continents all blended together for him into a sort...
...suggest this would be a very speedy remedy...
...ride in a flat-wheeled streetcar. There are moments of remarkable sensitiveness to season, landscape, and the part they can play in creating erotic and moral atmospheres. There are even moments when handsome Linda Darnell embodies the natural force she is portraying. And Edward Everett Horton somehow manages to suggest that a Tsarist rake would look and act like Edward Everett Horton. But too much of Scripter-Director Douglas Sirk's effort is polysyllabic, "cultered" and Little Theaterish...
...Welles's book is the long chapter describing his 1940 mission to Europe which was undertaken in the fragile hope that the "phony" war might somehow be halted before the real shooting began. Welles had no authority to commit the U.S. to war, but he managed discreetly to suggest that his country might change its isolationist mind if a Nazi victory seemed imminent. The portraiture in Welles's European travelogue rings clear and true. The late Count Ciano is shown boldly expressing his contempt for German Foreign Minister Ribbentrop and his antagonism toward Hitler. Mussolini astonished Welles...
...kept alongside, and tried to suggest different stunts to put out the fire. Step out to the right or to the left. Dive. Pick up speed to put out the flame. But nothing seemed, to work...