Word: touche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German girl sits with her G.I. fiancé. He is a slight, blond boy of perhaps 18; she is a blonde, bulging, overbearing, with a broad, white face, narrow, calculating eyes and a smile like the flat glare of an electric light that turns on & off at the touch of a switch. She leans with both elbows on the table and in a loud and domineering voice orders ice cream from the tired German waitress, while the boy follows her movements with a young dog's eyes. Outside, in the lounge, is a group of German war brides...
...Willing & Able." But the big hole was a clause that would keep his miners on the job only as long as they were "willing and able" to work. In other words, they could walk out when they wanted and the law could not touch them. As long as Lewis did not formally order them to strike, their walkout could not be called a strike. The union could not be sued...
Some of the people who worked on the film and acted in it plainly have a real feeling for jazz and the feeling shows up on the screen with honesty and warmth. The genial touch of Elliott Paul (see BOOKS) is often clear in the script; the Negro musicians-notably Armstrong, Singer Billie Holiday, Trombonist Kid Ory and Guitarist Bud Scott-act and play their music with freedom and pleasure. At the end, regrettably, jazz becomes "respectable"-probably the worst break it could...
Hollywood benignly agreed that Playwright McGiver was ready for some graduate work. Cinemogul David O. Selznick sent him the script of the forthcoming Portrait of Jenny, asked if McGiver would please, for good Hollywood money, just touch up the Irish dialogue...
...Rome's revered Art Critic Lionello Venturi, who refused to serve on the commission, has no hope that the commission will come around to the radical idea of peeling off the mural. Said he: "The painting is so sacred to them that they will not dare touch it. And by trying to preserve the sacred thing, they may allow it to destroy itself...