Word: unrealism
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Many a U. S. Senator indignantly criticized last year's film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, said it was artificial, unreal, undignified, and phony-in short, not at all the way U. S. Senators really act. Last week the entire U. S. Senate in real life played out a political comedy that was artificial, unreal, undignified and phony...
...Fight for Life runs for only 30 minutes. Dramatic without ever being theatrical, it makes even such top-notch Hollywood medical pictures as Men in White and Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet seem unreal and stagy. In its realism it sustains the suspense luckily caught a few minutes each year on epic newsreels...
...Rawlings between the idealism that made him take on a sickening job, and the nausea induced by the job itself. The other conflict-love v. duty-is old stage twaddle which Adapter Glazer could not bring to life. Despite its bold beginning, the love affair is flimsy, vaporous, unreal, nearly sinks the play. Only eloquent rhetoric holds the second half of The Fifth Column together. And nothing could be less characteristic of Hemingway than eloquent rhetoric...
Words struck harshly last night. The audience winced at Hemingway's terse sentences full of meaning. For two hours they sat through unreal seenes torn from the Spanish, Civil War, through rape, death, and gory descriptions. There were ideals and ideas involved and both came off second best. The final curtain left many persons unimpressed or at best uncertain...
...more than $1,500, living in a city of more than 50,000 people. Her husband is the movies' average man and from his pockets comes more than half of Hollywood's yearly revenues. To his average wife Hollywood sells dreams of luxury and love more expertly unreal than her own imagination, experience and daring could ever make them. "What the adult American female chiefly asks of the movies is the opportunity to escape by reverie from an existence which she finds insufficiently interesting. . . . She sees the quickest release... in dreaming of an existence which is rich, romantic...