Word: torpids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most cinemusicals the romantic protagonists cut each other's throats more shamelessly than they would dare to do in the most Borgian drama about man's inhumanity to man. In The Sky's the Limit a modest Flying Tiger (Fred Astaire) on hurried leave, a torpid picture-magazine publisher (Robert Benchley) and a photogenic photographer (Joan Leslie) work out their triangular difficulties with such decent respect for each other that they might be mistaken, in cloudy weather, for very nice human beings. The Sky's the Limit should have been a shattering innovation. Instead, it will...
...Morin, the most discouraging exhibition at last Saturday's game was given by the numerous students in the cheering sections who get up and left before "Fair Harvard" had been sung. Describing the mass exodus as a "damn shame" he said that it was a good index of the torpid condition of the school's spirit...
...Cantor's Thank Your Lucky Stars), broadcast her own show (Dinah Shore in Person), sang in Eddie Cantor's Time to Smile broadcast, and a few times at Army camps, appeared at the opening of Hollywood's "Stage Door" Canteen. For her it was a comparatively torpid seven days. The week before, in one day she put on seven soldier shows...
...this winter's Angel Street -is a psychiatric case history written as a horror story. Its victim, George Harvey Bone, is a big, bewildered Englishman who suffers from "dead moods." Textbooks would call him a schizophrenic. When George meets Netta, a beauty who has the torpid heartlessness of a late Roman Emperor, he collapses into a state of slavery which is emotionally uninhabitable. When Netta and her friends persecute George, just for the fun of it, his "spells," once mere vacant withdrawals from life, blossom into aggressive daydreams of murder...
They saw two ships pass, and signaled frantically but without avail. They fought to keep hold of their minds. Widdicombe broke off his front teeth trying to eat his shoes. Tapscott spent most of the time torpid in the boat's bottom...