Word: squirming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Moralists may squirm at the fact that the lovers, while longing for a less dangerous life, seem to feel no guilt over their lawbreaking. They take real pleasure in the comforts gained by Granger's cut of a bank robbery and budget their ill-gotten hoard as if they had slaved for it. Working on the notion that bank robbers are a likable lot among themselves and get the same pleasure out of their work as any other skilled craftsmen, Director Ray and Scriptwriter Charles Schnee have served up some fine, entertaining scenes. Their best characters: Howard Da Silva...
John Ford has avoided cluttering his latest western with any discernible plot. This will please people who enjoy a horse-and-shooting movie for its basic detail, and who hate to see it adulterated with Sex, Skullduggery, or Intrigue. It will bore stiff anyone who is prone to squirm in his seat until something happens...
...long piece of wood sculpture of ancient indigenous origin, with lots of room on which to lay your note-book, of whatever shape you may have, and your hat, if you wear one, your spare pencil, your spectacles and your watch, with lots of leg-room underneath, to tilt, squirm, or sprawl as the fancy seizes you-or a smooth, varnished wood-and-iron chair, carved to fit your bottom, screwed immovably to the floor, with the right arm designed for writing on, that is widened enough to take one roundish shaped piece of paper or a clip-board...
...phenomenon as typical as hot dog stands shaped like hot dogs, the self-service filling station. Since thrifty motorists can save 5? a gallon by filling their own tanks, the "serve yourself" stations are spreading all over the Pacific Coast, sell 20 million gallons a month. Major oil companies squirm at the inroads they are making in the sales of regular stations owned or leased out by the majors...
Next week it will be the big companies' turn to watch the gasaterias squirm. Under a new California law, the self-service stations may no longer advertise their "5? a gallon discount" unless their huge signs include, "in letters of equal size," the total price per gallon and brand name' of their gasoline...