Word: wallowings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...title, suits the action to the words. The main thrill for bobby-soxers and stylish stouts is rosy Van Johnson, a sort of air-conditioned Charles Ray, whose boyish charm is honest and home-cooked enough to keep the men in the audience reasonably fair-minded while the women wallow. The main thrill for the pants-&-Paris-garter trade is Esther Williams ; she has the kind of body-displayed in a protean series of bathing suits-which you may dream of but aren't inclined to talk about at the breakfast table, and a nice, easy, assured personality...
...things about defeated Germany and the Germans are as yet clear to the Allied victors. But one thing is already clear: Germany after World War II is going to be much the same sort of psychopathic wallow which produced Naziism and Adolf Hitler after World...
...book will stagger most readers. It is not only bulky but sexy, and both to excess. A 971-page exploitation of the bawdiest phases of the bawdy Restoration, it weighs two pounds even. And every ounce sizzles-with seductions, abortions, childbirths, miscarriages, bedroom raptures. Its characters wallow in pox, perversion, impotence, pregnancy. Historical events like the Great Plague and the Great Fire of London are swept away in its undertow...
...picture opens in a magnificent wallow of amphtracks as they leave their LSTs and head for shore under fire. One is hit and helpless. A plane, too, goes down. These are the finest shots of this stage of battle which have yet been released. Those which follow, ashore, are hardly less fine, made very close to the ground as marines, heroic in size and movement on the screen, rush across the open beach against everything the Japanese can throw at them. A hit man stops short, falls wounded before the lens. The cutting-away from such bits is swift, perhaps...
...Japanese soldier took my canteen, gave the water to a horse, and threw the canteen away. Men recently killed were lying along the roadside; many had been run over and flattened by Japanese trucks. . . . Finally a Japanese officer permitted us to drink water from a dirty carabao wallow...