Word: bleaknesses
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...Those were the good days," he continued. "But now, the bleak days have come, and the fighting Bellboys have seen 59 points scored upon them in the three gaines this season without scoring a single point of their...
Donald Mork did the settings for both plays. The simple arrangements of a column, some stones, and a backdrop in the Trojan Horse help create a bleak atmosphere while the house and garden in This Music are more orthodox as realistic sets...
...crash landing in the frozen Canadian North and closes, naturally enough, with the rescue of the survivors. Based on a novel by Ernest Gann, the film gives Director William (Battleground) Wellman a fine documentary chance to explore the hazards of arctic flying and to train his camera on a bleak but beautiful terrain (the picture was made, not in Labrador, but in the Donner Lake region of northern California). What slows things down is the high-blown rhetoric of the script, the tediously familiar characterizations of the flyers, and the endless invisible choirs that form the musical background of every...
National Calamity. Myxomatosis is now a fighting word in France, and Professor Armand-Delille is regarded as something of a public enemy. French furriers see a bleak future ahead with no more cheap rabbitskins to glamorize into expensive-looking furs. French hunting (it was mostly rabbits) has been almost destroyed. Manufacturers of guns and ammunition are despondent. The injured parties have organized an "Association de Défense contre la Myxomatose...
...Panmunjom, shortly before 10 a.m. (the hour fixed for the signing), nervous little Communist sentries in baggy pants and wilting red epaulettes scurried about, brushing off the board walk where their masters were to tread. The bleak, new truce building, hastily and especially erected by the Reds, smelled of fresh pine. Outside, it still showed the marks of two big Picasso-style peace doves, put up by the Reds, taken down at Mark Clark's demand. Inside it was stifling hot. Sweating U.N. observers and correspondents, including officers from each national contingent, filed in and sat on metal chairs...