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...cannot get Vag. See, Vag does not even blink. This is mere phantasmagoria compared to The Four encountered on The Bottom. They were truly fearsome, especially to one numbed with the icy breath of the Great Fear, one who cannot fight back. The Four had come at him--zing, zing, zing, zing--like that. Vag had blinked four times, and flinched...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/11/1939 | See Source »

...drawn on large celluloid sheets, superimposed and then photographed one by one. Len Lye, however, paints or stencils his designs by hand, slowly and methodically, on the thin ribbon of film stock itself. Some of the names Len Lye gave to musical effects: "a splurged woomph" (drum beat), "a zing-a-zing-a-zing-a-zing" (violin), "flutter" (clarinet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Film Painter | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

Sally, Irene and Mary (Twentieth Century-Fox) lacks the timely zing that makes most Darryl Zanuck cinemusicals seem a little better than they are. Comic interludes are contributed by horn-beaked Jimmy Durante, startled-looking Fred Allen. Of a half-dozen tunes shared by Songstress Alice Faye and Crooner Husband Tony Martin, the Gordon-Revel Sweet As a Song is best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

When Governor Landon left Topeka fortnight ago, his journalist-advisers were considerably worried because the preliminary drafts of the speeches he was to deliver contained so little of the political zip and zing that make helpful headlines. The G.O.P. nominee argued that the East did not know him, that he was going to introduce himself first by a discussion of general principles and not deal with specific campaign issues until later. His West Middlesex speech was, in fact, so fundamental that the Democratic high command did not bother to controvert its generalities. At Chautauqua Governor Landon discussed Education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Buffalo Blast | 9/7/1936 | See Source »

...Zing! An arrow whizzes through the air, crashes through a light globe, and imbeds itself in the wall, vibrating smartly. Three more do the same thing, leaving a remonstrant, unidentified bather in the dark. It's not at all certain that the arrows are golden. But that opening shot is the only excuse for the name, "The Golden Arrow," of Bette Davis' latest. Or else we're too obtuse...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 5/13/1936 | See Source »

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