Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...eliminate confusion in air terms among international airlines, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) last week distributed a glossary to make everything clear. Prize example...
...Danny Kaye comedy based-a long way off base-on Nicolay Gogol's satiric Russian classic about the impostor who helps some corrupt officials outsmart themselves. Watered down and gagged up as it is, Gogol's idea is still engaging, and Comic Kaye is man enough to make even thin material look nervously good...
Eric Williams' "true account" of one of World War II's most original escapes (he is the "Peter Howard" of the story) sold more than 200,000 copies in England last year. An equally avid U.S. appetite for well-paced excitement could make The Wooden Horse one of the U.S. bestsellers of the year...
What lifts Tight Little Island above its own high mark of insular drollery, and turns its chuckles into laughs, is its mastery of the visual gag. The picture moves quietly but surely until the islanders make a rendezvous with the derelict Scotch. Then, in picturing their celebration, their efforts to hide the loot from customs raiders and a chase to rescue the biggest cache of whisky, the camera goes on an inspired spree. For lightness, comic movement and inventive detail, these sequences are worthy of Rene Clair...
...dead lay everywhere and the living dared not come near them. They lay in the streets and in the alleys, unburied in potter's field and in houses shunned by their neighbors. Their faces were emaciated and jaundiced, their bodies so malodorous as to make the living faint. Almost half the populace of the city had fled. Of those who remained, the well dared not approach the ill. Men fell suddenly in their tracks and lay dead. Frightened, orphaned children huddled together, starving, and adults hurried by and let them starve...