Word: warmly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picture adds nothing to his reputation as a producer of quality entertainment, it will be because Mr. Selznick's profit motive is showing. All costly films, to be sure, are manufactured for profit, but the successful works generally keep pointing winningly to their warm hearts and remain sentimental about their subjects (The Razor's Edge) or their characters (The Yearling) or their audiences (It's a Wonderful Life). With no pretense at all to having a heart, big, beautiful, humorless Duel remains shrewdly cynical about both itself and its sensation-hungry public...
...crest of a wave when the records in this album were cut. A strangely haunting, morbidly phrased rendition of "Begin the Beguine" issued the year before, had established his reputation, and set the pattern for his style. He had somehow managed to combine complicated technique and warm melodic feeling effectively. Although now, after three years, the style seems to have overwhelmed the man and betrayed all artistic effect by its over-dominance, at the time Heywood was a balanced artist with something to say that hadn't been said before...
...wrapped in a silk stocking and daubed with putty, sponge, cloth and "blood"). The theater has a secret recipe for blood; when the stuff cools it coagulates and makes scabs. Thrill-hungry customers in the small auditorium get a dividend when they overhear the hoarse backstage whisper: "Vite, Edmond! Warm up the blood...
Bonnard was France's last strong link with the great 19th Century French impressionists. Now he had a prodigy to warm his heart. "Edouard," Bonnard predicted, "will be the French painter of tomorrow-providing he stays away from design schools and academies...
...Columbus had sailed due west, the "prevailing westerlies" of the North Atlantic might have battered his caravels back to Europe. But by luck, sailor's hunch, or a simple desire to sail in warm weather, he detoured south to the Canary Islands, picked up favorable winds. Since then, transatlantic sailing ships have used the Columbus system, often sweeping miles out of their straight-line courses to take advantage of friendly winds...