Word: vernal
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...Dubious Battle found him siding with Communist labor organizers, but in Tortilla Flat he sided with an amorally jolly bunch of vagrants and winos. In The Grapes of Wrath he keened over the suffering Okies in their mass exodus, but in The Red Pony he celebrated the vernal innocence of a boy and a colt beyond the reach of civilization's dust bowls. After the '30s, this internal dramatic tension drained out of Steinbeck and his later novels are all rather like Hollywood sets, more to be looked at than lived...
...Balcony captivated New York's off Broadway last season. Now there is reason to believe that her seductive hallelujahs as a prurient evangelist may well make her the toast of the movie tabernacles. For Salome (she pronounces it Sal-o-way) is that rare actress whose vernal essence comes from within, breathing innocence, poignancy and a strange soft beauty into an otherwise wooden face...
...life huge, drowsing areas of Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona. Industry is moving into the area. Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. is building the world's largest mine-and-mill potash project at Cane Creek, Utah; San Francisco Chemical Co. will dig and process phosphates near Vernal, Utah...
...sets are fun, and properly improbable. Not many of the situations in the script can be found in the book, but Scenarist Walter (Titanic) Reisch has at times improved on the master himself. Producer Brackett's dialogue has a Vernal freshness and LIFE Science Writer Lincoln (The World We Live In) Barnett, retained as a technical adviser, has shrewdly inserted his scientific facts so as not to impair the general implausibility. On the whole, the film seems sure to enhance Author Verne's reputation as the best dead writer Hollywood ever had. In the last five years three...
Mother Advocate is back! Her complexion somehow freshening in the spring sun, her wheel-chair gliding effortlessly as if oiled by vernal juices, she sits serenely by various newsstands in the Square, happily disproving the pessimists who bet this doughty octogenarian would never live the winter through...