Word: patterning
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...structure is built. Instead, each of the individual performances--Walter Pidgeon as the town clergyman, Donald Crisp as the courageous head of the Morgan family, Maureen O'Hara as his daughter, Roddy McDowall as Huw Morgan, through whose words the story is told--forms a part of the broad pattern which the film so effectively presents...
...operator of the seven-mile an hour treadmill, which is designed to exhaust the student. Strapped to the student's chest are electrodes, which amplify his heart beats and record them upon a moving tape. In the first of two sessions at the laboratory, the metabolism and the respiratory pattern of each student are taken, after he has gone breakfastless and has rested for one-half hour...
This is one musical in which the book and the music just about balance. They are both top-notch, though you may find a trifle too much talk in the second act. The times are in the traditional Rodgers and Hart pattern, but not so repetitions as they have been in the past. "Nobody's Heart Belongs to Mc" is a fine and mellow torch number; "The Gateway of the Temple of Minerva" is a hot boogic woogie special. And "Careless Rhapsody" is another song you'll be whistling soon...
...area that the R.A.F. could bomb spread vast across the face of Europe (see map). Because it was so big the pattern of bombing could be infinitely varied...
Then the lights brighten, the ceiling lifts, the cheerful noise of hammer and saw is heard. The show winds up with photographs of the U.S. trying to make up for lost time, already, in some places, building wartime housing in the pattern of the world of tomorrow -well-planned communities of airy houses, parks, playgrounds, schools...