Word: townes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...magenta sunsets, daring cleavages or rabid mobs. This conservatism, marking the difference between British efforts and their Hollywood counterparts, is displayed in "Tawny Pipit," and proves once again that the designation "rank" lauds as well as castigates. This story of a rare bird and its effects on the nearby town is consistently first-rate...
...picture is significant in a larger context. Very possibly, it was the Englishman's concern with such minor themes as the Pipit that enabled him to preserve his perspective during the war. This important aspect is conveyed, not in melodramatic buzz-bomb sequences, but in small-town scenes, and indicates the cogency of Rank's approach. The Pipit's sincere saga does more than just muddle through--it scores a tweedy triumph...
Getting out to the town seems to confuse the Big Green. "No matter how many-times you've made the trip, there's always the chance you'll take the wrong car and end up at Braves Field instead of Tower Court...
Skidmore visitors are warned against taking too much of the Saratoga mineral water before hitting the town's 90 bars. "One Yale man," they point out, "was ripped asunder...
Caldwell's point is that Molly never did have a chance. She was a sharecropper's daughter and early seduced, went from bed to worse until she set up in business for herself in Agricola. When she married Putt Bowser, the town's aging odd-job man, she settled down to housekeeping and running down a husband for Lily, her 16-year-old illegitimate daughter. Then Putt had to go and get himself killed. Said Molly, the day of the funeral: "Maybe it wasn't his fault, but I ought to have had the sense...