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...interest to salt the stew-and the result is a movie that looks to be right out of Hollywood's golden age, but which seems curiously old-fashioned today. Catch either of these movies at a drive-in, and on a clear night you can see the '30s, sparkling almost like...
...character like Billy McCoy, who makes Rocky Balboa sound as cynical as Céline, has not graced movies since John Wayne's "Singin' Sandy" westerns of the mid-'30s. His nemesis turned girlfriend recalls the snooty madcaps of the old screwball comedies. Sondra Locke is no Carole Lombard; indeed, Bronco Billy would have benefited from the presence of a more elegant, less abrasive actress like Jill Clayburgh or Blythe Banner. But Locke strong-arms her way into your affections at about the time Billy wins her over, and by the end of Bronco Billy...
...world inside the confines of the College had been a hard world of a different sort, the end of the '20s, a different era from the beginning of the '30s...
...York newspaper editorial in the late 19th century commented on the Italian influx: "The bars are down. The dam is washed away. The sewer is choked. The scum of immigration is viscerating upon our shores." Franklin Roosevelt held rigidly to his immigrant quotas all through the '30s, when Europe's Jews were desperately seeking refuge from Hitler. The American failure to welcome Europe's Jews may have encouraged Hitler...
Picasso's climactic work of the '30s was Guernica, 1937. In its way it is a classicizing painting, not only in its friezelike effect, but also in its details. The only modern image in it is a light bulb; but for its presence, the mural would scarcely seem to belong in the world of Heinkel bombers and incendiary bombs. Yet its black, white and gray palette also suggests the documentary photo, while the texture of strokes on the horse's body is more like collaged newsprint than hair...