Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...most large-scale producing agreements, the deal put surprisingly few hobbles on Producers Wald and Krasna. Although Hughes reserved final decision on all films costing more than $900,000, he would do little more than approve the stars and basic story line on the rest. Furthermore, he guaranteed to make his decisions in every case within a week, and to release the finished product within 90 days, no matter how it turned...
...support of Actor Cummings' expert clowning and Actress Caulfield's good looks, the film puts Elsa Lanchester and Melville Cooper on their best comic behavior, and adds a living calendar of twelve Petty girls to help make the time pass quickly...
...Umberto recognizes that his reluctant silence meant consent, and feels the final crushing weight of his own responsibility. By then it is too late even to make his peace with the Allied conquerors. Cynical connivers higher up in the party suddenly emerge as democrats, but small-fry Fascist Spadaro loses the little job that he once joined the party to save...
...unsettled past and an unwanted future. The past survives in the memory of the old South, its code of courage and chivalry, its moral stain of slavery. The future is the creeping new world of Northern commerce and industry; in Faulkner's view, it promises to make life impersonal, mechanized and "depthless...
...stories, the Sartoris family represents the past-former aristocrats who lose themselves in gentility, alcohol, rhetoric and madness. The Snopes family symbolizes the future; they are coldly, and crudely, on the make. The process of degeneration hits bottom when a third type appears: people who use the Sartoris pretensions to veil the Snopes greed...