Word: obviousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...between Japan and the United States, long considered possible, will then be inevitable, projected by our neglect of our rights and duties as a nation, by our dull indifference to our public welfare, and by our shortsightedness in not seeing the obvious menace which has been impending...
Dual impersonation in the cinema is such an old and obvious trick that it usually makes for implausibility unless the actor who attempts it is skillful enough to give the two characters definite and different personalities. Ronald Colman succeeds in doing so, most brilliantly when, as Loder, he is imitating Chilcote's mannerisms just badly enough to make the audience feel that it is an imitation and just well enough to make the audience feel that the imitation might have fooled Chilcote's intimates. Typical situation: Loder. "making mistakes in wives," chatting with Mrs. Chilcote in the hope...
When Italian officers put away their glittering swords and appear at cafe tables in Sam Browne belts, then tourists know that maneuvers are beginning. They began last week from Asti in Piedmont south across the Ligurian Alps to the Italian Riviera. The problem was obvious: the defense of Genoa and the manufacturing cities of Italy's north from a French invasion through the mountain passes and along the seacoast. The Fascist militia was mobilized, acting in reserve for the regular troops. In the field too were little King Victor Emmanuel and Il Duce, who hurried over from his conference...
...favor of the leading lady, and returns to her home. The play is nevertheless a success, but the manager and the playwright ignore it to hurry after her with separate proposals of marriage. Surprisingly, the manager arrives first. Years of novelizing have given Booth Tarkington a glib though obvious technic which he employs with smooth professional skill. Lily Mars repeats his familiar formula of the heroine who is gaily and innocently wanton, and much better at heart than she lets on to be. Not stage people but marionettes are the characters of this book, jiggling from visible wires...
...Tamiris displayed a studied, metallic style which emphasized posture rather than motion, successfully overcame the handicap huge Lewisohn Stadium places on a solo dancer. A friendly audience loudly clamored for encores. Critics who joined in the applause for Tamiris found the lusty cavorting of the Bahama dancers merely the obvious counterpart of "hot" music, considered its presence with the Philharmonic-Symphony incongruous...