Word: depictions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Devil you depict could not seduce even Lena the Hyena. Nothing like him was ever kicked out of Heaven. Fact is the Devil is good-looking ... he has a Clark Gable mustache and a widow's peak like Robert Taylor...
...accounts of World War II are seared with so much brutality and suffering, or depict more starkly the sullen impact of war on the common soldier. Writes Matthews: "Perhaps somewhere on somebody's map the actions of our company made a pretty pattern against the whole picture, but what the readers of those maps probably didn't know was that it was a pretty pattern of desperate little confusions." On Iwo, the "desperate little confusions" prodded many a marine into heroism, many more into death. Author Matthews sums up: "It was easier to go forward than...
...least of the picture's merits is its innovation of alternating technicolor and monochrome to depict earth and heaven. The latter is a highly fanciful creation, and the Hollywood-Bowlish representation of the High Court of Judgment stretches the imagination almost beyond the bounds of good taste. But no one, whether atheist or fatalist, can fail to enjoy the high humor of the heavenly consternation when a "clerical error" results in the unscheduled prolongment of the doomed flier's life-on-earth...
...college, the French Club is at full strength for the first time in years this term, and full-scale operations involving bi-monthly meetings and special events, such as tonight's attraction, ave well under way. Releases about "Les Perles," one of the famous oldtime French productions, depict the story of the wanderings of seven pearls purloined from an old Gallie crown and their subsequent journies from neck to neck. Sacha Guitry is head man in the flick while one Lyn Harding is purported to be the woman to watch...
...machinery that has been grinding out monthly chuckles for almost three generations of Cantabrigians is set between three walls of the island fortress that guards the Mount Auburn Street approaches to the Gold Coast Valeteria. The structure is fraught with symbolic significance. The western tip was designed to depict a smiling face, while the eastern end is said to represent a clothing store. But accurate description pales beside the comment of a tourist from the Middle West, who, pulling his ear up in front of Adams House one day last summer, squinted across the street, turned to his wife...