Word: backwardation
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...wanted to release AMG personnel for other duties; Russian and other criticism of AMG was too hot to ignore. Finally, said grey-haired, British Lieut. General F. N. Mason-MacFarlane, it was a good thing to "take off General Alexander's shoulders the necessity of having to look backward over his own shoulders...
...Right, Benny." Someone rocketed a bazooka shell into the last of the red houses and flames belched upward. One of the tanks poked its nose around the corner and fired shells directly into the flames. A series of crunching explosions sent the tank backward, as the enemy gun beaded on our area again...
...Book. Fannie's latest novel (Hallelujah; Harper; $2.50) is a rather abstruse triangle. Lily Browne, a widow, seemed "a startled-looking little girl, whose round hat with ribbons would be forever slipping backward on her head." Quiet, modest, gentle, nevertheless "in her underslip, the translucence of pale flesh shone on her arms and breast. An unexpected little quality of voluptuousness was revealed by Lily in undress. The thighs seemed wider and harp-shaped, the cups of the bust, tiny, separate and high." Oleander Watterson, Lily's maid, was an ex-convict, six feet tall, with a torchlight personality...
...Griffith and his great cameraman Billy Bitzer, here shown working with Henry B. Walthall in The Escape, were the Founding Fathers of cinematic art. They discovered the closeup, the cutback, the truck shot (camera moving forward or backward), the fadeout, the fuzz-focused heroine's head which, esthetically, is Hollywood's chief inheritance from them. Some of their action sequences in The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Intolerance (1916), together with many by their brilliant, neglected contemporary, Thomas Ince, have seldom been equaled, never surpassed...
...groping for some Archimedean machine to pull Britain, the U.S., Russia into line on a world trade basis? Morrison said only that his purpose was to eliminate "that worst of all forms of competition, which is based on the abject poverty and misery of the workers in socially backward countries...