Word: swallows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have to smuggle mood into an American picture. Mood itself, American audiences will not swallow. You have to be extremely clever. You do it with a shoehorn. For instance, a European opens his picture with a shot of the clouds. Then another, very beautiful. Then a third. The audience accepts it as part of the mood...
...cockpit, the pilot and copilot were wrestling with the controls to keep the big ship's nose up. They were flying blind. The needle registering altitude bounced crazily between 200 and 800 feet. The plane was bobbing too fast for the instrument to keep up. . . . I tried to swallow but couldn't. . . . My legs were numb from the hips down, partly from the pressure of the safety belt cutting into my belly, but mostly from fear...
...many write small novels of bewildered souls trying to figure their way out. The trouble with proletarian novels is that they're written from the outside looking in. And what Freud has done! Those little case histories. Freud is a great man, but we mustn't swallow him whole and not be able to digest...
...Court of St. Damasus, where the Pope sat resplendent on an improvised dais, spangled maidens from Goa, bandannaed islanders from Timor, and tribesmen from Dom Pedro's own Angola watched devoutly. The old King had put on a swallow-tailed coat and extra wide trousers. His moustachios gleamed stark and white as he mounted the steps to the throne followed by his Queen, Isabella. His eyes were downcast and glued to his outturned feet for fear he might trip on his trousers. When at last he stood at the top, the crowd applauded. Pedro started to prostrate himself...
...times of stress "miracle men" have a habit of bobbing up with "messages" for a world in search of signs and wonders. Some swallow swords, some are buried alive, some sleep on tacks. Others-the more conservative kind-merely possess "supernatural powers...