Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vivid background on the Libyan desert and some of the most utterly realistic battle scenes ever filmed hold up an otherwise flimsily constructed picture. Henry Fonda goes through the process of becoming a leader of men under the tutelage of Thomas Mitchell, who is the sergeant in charge of a lost sunrise-patrol. Every so often, there is a flash-back to Maureen O'Hara, because Hollywood has just got to work romance in somehow. Since Maureen isn't on the scene of action it moves along fairly well, but not on a par with terrific action scenes, which alone...
...many things that stayed with him, from a scowling papier mache image of II Duce to a tawdry effigy of Christ adorned with trinkets by Italy's praying poor. Back in the U.S., Blume spent two years pondering what he had seen, the next three years painting the vivid, swarming detail of The Eternal City with its popeyed Mussolini...
...action; if he had made the danger implicit in Chuck's kind-and Tyler's-more edged and more explicit; if he had not skidded into regrettable Sandburg-&-ketchup prose poetry this could have been a much better book. Even as it stands, it is a clear, vivid warning and bracer to that man-in-the-street who makes or breaks democracies, seldom reads books, and is this book's ideal reader...
...work of making munitions, erecting barricades and drilling the city's defenders never stops. The film has vivid shots of the lifeline that made Leningrad's resistance possible: the path across frozen Lake Ladoga, where railroad trains run on temporary tracks and trucks travel until late in the spring across the rotten ice. The most eloquent shots are those of the people: in Leningrad's streets death is so commonplace that no one turns to look at a small boy dragging a sled with a coffin...
...also a disappointment. For Miss Howe, a ranking monologuist, brings into fiction both the virtues and the faults of her art. She has a fine ear for the devilish ironies and self-betrayals of normal speech (or writing), and her whole book is nervous and vivid with them. But she has also the monologuist's weakness for overemphasis, for sacrificing psychological integrity in favor of a laugh or a sniff. Even so, The Whole Heart is an impressive, realistic piece of work...