Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they also drifted toward one another on the other side of the globe, pressing into the Pacific. Their Atlantic shores remained much as they had been before they separated; but the Pacific shores crumpled the earth's crust ahead of them, like the bows of ships plowing through thin ice. Thus were formed the still growing, earthquaky mountains which ring the Pacific today. When the crumpling broke a hole through the solid crust, hot "magma" burst to the surface, building a volcano...
Closeup, Young neither looks nor acts like a fighting man. He is quiet and soft-voiced, shows anger only by a slight tightening of his lips, a slight glint in his pale blue eyes. Only 5 ft. 6 and weighing only 135 Ibs., his body seems fragile. His thin shoulders are stooped. He looks more than his age: at 50, he could easily be taken for 65. His narrow face is florid and wrinkled, with the kind of puffiness that usually spells dissipation. "My dissipation," says Young, who doesn't smoke and only occasionally takes a cocktail...
Blaming adult misdeeds on childhood frustrations is a widely popular excuse among amateur Freudians. Nonetheless, church & state still hold a grown person responsible for his own sinful and antisocial acts. Hollywood is cutting figure-eights on dangerously thin moral ice by suggesting to its huge mass audience that an unhappy childhood not only explains but somehow excuses a lady's indulgence in bitchery and murder...
...best comedy is the comedy of situation or of memorable character. Any playwright who attempts to pass off a motley collection of gags and giggles as a "light dramatic composition" is treading on thin ice, and Norman Krasna has not escaped the usual pitfalls in his latest effort to repeat the popularity of "Dear Ruth." His plot--the customary returning-soldier triangle--meets the traditional requirements, but a slow and uneven development robs it of most of its potentialities...
...Nous la Liberte" will be featured on April 11 with a series of excerpts from dance films. The last show, on May 23, will consist of three Charlie Chaplin comedies and the original of the "Thin Man" series...