Word: umber
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...light hand might have rescued what is young and touching in such scenes from what is infantile and mawkish, but Producer Selznick (Gone With the Wind) likes to keep production under his thumb. He bears down to good effect in the battle sequences among the umber Dolomites, and he shrewdly distracts his audience, during the dullest stretch of the story, with a ravishing cinemalbum of the blue Italian lakes. Jennifer Jones's heroine appears to be more neurotic than the plot requires, and the final stages of her pregnancy, as the camera just keeps staring at her heavily padded...
...founders of the congress have a good umber of wrinkles to iron out of their project, but the potential value is well worth surmounting the birth pangs of organization. They deserve a pat on the back for proposing the congress, and the help of everyone interested in turning a "natural" into a reality...