Word: yes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tell them how to do things," mumbled Goodman Ace (he had a six-inch Dunhill cigar in his mouth), "and they say yes, and don't do them. They won't ever learn until some day when all the people will get fed up and turn off all the radios...
...million lire ($138,000). (Open City cost only $100,000.) But it was a long, hard scrimmage in the making. Neither Producer Paolo W. Tamburella (who thought up the idea), nor Director Vittorio De Sica, nor Sergio Amidei (who wrote Open City) and his three fellow writers are exactly yes-men. Finding the right actors and getting fine performances out of young amateurs-they were all shoeshine boys-was no small job in itself. And there were plenty of subsidiary difficulties. (When Allied authorities forbade G.I.s to act in the film-and G.I.s were indispensable to the Roman scene...
...King: "Yes, you are. Otherwise you would have heard the murmuring of the country. In short, Marshal, will you send the telegram...
...King: "Yes, because when I called you this morning you treated me as a mere nothing [thumping the desk]. I do not permit you to take liberties with my person. Do you think I can permit you to usurp my prerogatives and simply look on like a fool while my country crumbles away...
...there any such thing as freedom of worship in Titotalitarian Yugoslavia? Well, yes, said seven U.S. Protestant clergymen just returned from a Tito-financed junket (TIME, Aug. 25). By last week, the visiting ministers' cheery reports on Yugoslavia had won them some irate rebukes from both Protestants and Catholics...