Word: amidst
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gilt hero flits from Broadway to Banff, a cozy little hideout of 2000 rooms in the western Rockies, hot on the trail of his lost sweetheart. The routine is well known by now--continental chase ending amidst nature's wonders. But this time nature complicates things by throwing in a bevy of assorted wolves as only Cesar Romero, Carmen Miranda, and something from the Los Angeles zoo can portray the species. Between the antics of these over-anxious characters, the screen is filled with dancer John in chase and partner Betty oh-so undecided about the whole thing...
Sophisticated comedy is hardly at home in Hitler's Europe. But it is there, amidst scenes of the suffering and misery that have unfolded since 1939, that MGM has placed its latest effort at well-bred laughs, "Once Upon A Honeymoon." The cast is sure-fire, Ginger Rogers as a Minsky Melter gone broad A, Cary Grant in a reporter part tailored to his tongue-in-cheek virility, and a newcomer, Walter Slezak, as the type of Brownshirted bully that gestapoes himself into disfavor handily. But even these stalwarts are helpless in a plot that ambles from fantastic nonsense...
...Wave and the Weather. In the whole area, from Mateur to Tébourba, hour after hour went by in a turmoil of bombardment, tank charges and hand-to-hand encounters amidst screeching swoops by the Stukas. (Not included in the spokesman's broadcast was the point that the Allies had insufficient fighter cover. Bases near enough to the front had not yet been equipped. At any rate, judging from newspaper dispatches at the time, there were too few Allied planes...
...first-night applause. The apartment which he himself planned to the last detail was so arranged he could entertain 100 cocktail guests on the roof, a dinner party of 50, another couple of hundred in the ballroom, all at the same time. Amidst 18th-Century French paintings, Chinese screens and a slightly rococo splendor, Condé Nast presided, bald and genial, peering sphinxlike through pince-nez glasses, the arbiter of his world...
...students' eager eyes. Little attempt is being made to fit the supply of college men to the specific needs of the various armed forces, and Selective Service Headquarters finds itself on the spot as the Army and Navy Reserve plans cut the heart from its quota. Many students, skeptical amidst the wealth of opportunity, are still "waiting to be shown...