Word: unseen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although Hollywood knew that it had o have a full stock of samples on hand for fall delivery, it could not foresee what he revolution might do to the cinema industry. Accustomed to selling a year's product sight unseen on the strength of a few high-powered productions, extravagant promises, big names, and a barrage of adjectives, it was faced with the vagaries of competitive sales. Now pictures vill largely have to be sold on merit. A studio with the capacity for making good pictures may clean up if its competitors try to peddle poor ones...
...interest here in active painting. Whether or not the four week exhibition becomes annual as its founders hope, it will explode the old myth that Harvard is interested in art only from the viewpoint of scholarly criticism. More important, it may uncover much talent that has till now blushed unseen behind dormitory walls...
Sometimes Rauschning's voice sounds like that of a prophet, sometimes like that of a clever Junker. He has little use for forces which most people are used to calling progressive. In a brilliant chapter, The Unseen Revolution, he lights up a paradox: "The true forces of reaction are not to be found . . . in the cliques of a privileged class. . . ." Far more reactionary are the doctrinaires who, in the name of economic security for the masses, have promoted "the idea of rational planning, which has come from the world of technology, where it belongs, to intrude on political...
Then suddenly the fans rose to their feet in a roaring mass. As if some unseen transformer had hooked on a new supply of power, Armstrong was the dynamo of days gone by. His little fists smashed Zivic with savage fury. It was a superhuman rally, one its witnesses will never forget. But it was too late. After 52 seconds of the 12th round, Referee Arthur Donovan stopped the fight. Three times (after the eighth, ninth and tenth rounds) he had peered anxiously at Armstrong's wounds. His eleventh-round warning-"Just one more round, Henry"-had spurred...
...idea wonderfully suited to the leering talents of John Barrymore: he is a scampish scientist with a contraption for making people invisible. However, the story rapidly runs out of breath, thereafter staggers through a plodding plot about a fatuous young moneybags (John Howard) who is inexplicably attracted to the unseen subject of the Barrymorian experiments (Virginia Bruce). Added but unnecessary wrinkles are furnished by eyebrowed Oscar Homolka, a gangster who steals Barrymore's machine for nefarious purposes...