Word: touche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lady, fellas. There's the Old Lady. . . ." As the Statue of Liberty took shape through the mist, they yelled and banged fists on other men's shoulders. But they were quiet as the ship docked. On the pier they reached out like children to touch the Gray Ladies who served them food-American women...
...volcanoes, the cactus maguey and prickly pears, the insubstantial clouds and the hard rock. Velasco's love for the valley was not merely esthetic: it was founded on his knowledge of botany, geology, religion. He always read a Psalm before he tackled any major work; it added a touch of mysticism to his solid realism...
...Wall Street, there was a touch of the old fever. Three days in a row the roaring stockmarket pushed sales up to more than 2,000,000 shares. In one wild last hour's trading, 800,000 shares changed hands. Twice the high speed ticker fell behind. Result: the Dow-Jones industrial averages soared to 156.68, highest since the war-begotten boomlet of September 1939. The rail averages kept pace with them. At 51.35, railroad stocks were at their peak since 1937, when the last big bull market fell on its face...
...power and subtlety of weather that most U.S. moviemakers seem to lack. When Zack invites his new friends to a New Year's Eve party at the Y, the crowd there is precisely as it should be. So are the decorations and so-a typical Selznick touch-is the sailor, off at the side, solemnly working himself into a lather on the parallel bars. (Other Selznick touches: a stuffy senator asking Zack how the boys overseas are thinking politically and getting a quite unpleasant answer; a woman scolding her little boy-his name: Franklin...
...tunes, however, especially More and More, Californ-i-ay, and the title song which is caroled in an early American bathhouse, are solid enough Kern, if a touch too operatic for the winter's juke boxes. And Miss Durbin, whose hair has been dyed a pleasing pink for her first appearance as a Technicoloratura, still sings charmingly and still suggests what she has only once had half-a-chance (in Christmas Holiday) to prove: that she is a big girl now, and could step out of her candy box to become one of the most high-powered sex-actresses...