Word: thunderstorms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...belly and symmetrical widespread legs." He is "reckless," "virile," "resistless," "incontestable," "beautiful," "sinister," "primordial and unrestrained, fierce, overmastering, intemperate," "an essence ... of masculinity" fraught with "potent magnetism"-in brief, "the man every woman hopes she'll be raped by." Whenever the Devil fulfills these hopes, it causes a thunderstorm to break over Hell; much of Roaring Mountain is devoted to this special type of weather reporting. Cf The Silent Land's hero is one of the finest, go-gettingest he-men in contemporary writing-a Winsor version of Lanny Budd. Miles Morgan's eyes were "green, speckled...
...downpour reached its maximum drenching power between 5:50 and 6 p.m. when the rainfall amounted to approximately a quarter of an inch. At 6 p.m. the cloudburst turned into a chilly thunderstorm...
...Shakespeare's greatest characters, and probably the hardest to perform. He is a king, a father, a madman, all in one. He is more: a man in touch with the great forces of Nature, a man whose oncoming madness and rage are reflected by nature in a terrible thunderstorm, a man who speaks habitually to the gods. An actor, must have great and special powers to do anything like justice to the part. William Devlin does; his Lear is a tremendous performance, fully worthy of Shakespeare's tremendous creation...
Except for one thunderstorm, this movie hasn't much lightning to offer, nor much action either. The supporting cast almost saves "Lightning Strikes Twice" from being a complete catastrophe, but it still isn't worth 60 cents...
...through their training, the cadets had been taught that one goes around a thunderstorm, or one turns around-but he never, never attempts to go through it. With a choice of flying through thunderstorms to certain death, or of facing the wrath of the horny-headed, fork-tailed Hardin, most of the pilots chose the certain death as the easier...