Word: paceful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...every Sunday driver knows, U. S. roads have not kept pace with U. S. cars. Motorists long for high-speed roadways-without steep hills, sharp turns, crossroads, bottlenecks. This week, with the opening of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, some of them got what they wanted...
...handed rookie brought up from Buffalo only ten days before. A gawky stringbean who had lost more games this season than he had won, Rookie Giebell looked like a sacrificial lamb as he ambled out to the mound. But no lamb was Giebell that day. With cunning change of pace and the control of an oldtimer, the green-as-grass rookie shut out the Indians...
...father, Louis Calhern naturally sets the pace; the family and its inevitably visiting relations serve principally as objects of his self-important whim. One minute he is crying "damn the New Haven, another wreck!", the next finds him lecturing, with many an ejaculated "My God" at the sight of the monthly bills, upon the necessity of running the family on a "sound business basis." Here in truth is a one-man band playing with all the noise and car-splitting trumpet section of a high school brass combo. But there is gold beneath the brass, and father...
...Stayed for Breakfast," variation allegro on the Ninotchka theme, casts McIvyn Douglas as the party-liner seduced by the very un-proletarian charms of Loretta Young. Catching the flavor of a Paris that is no more, the film combines the wit of the French with the crackling pace of the American movies. But indeed ironic is the script's playful treatment of a political force which contributed so much to the downfall of that Paris which it eulogizes...
Probably the greatest weakness of "Boyd's Shop" is its lack of excitement and pace. It is a dreamy play, built on the serenity of Ulster life, particularly the life of three years back when the bottom had not fallen out of Europe. And Ervine has to make up for this deficiency by characterizations which are skilfully executed, and problems which have far more universality than the limits of Donaghreagh...