Word: patterning
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...Hollywood to call on, is shooting more than 100 pictures a year. Its full-time executive head, voluble John Grierson, who prepared England's slick Government film setup, was busy visualizing the war for Canadian citizens with a series of brilliant documentary pictures that fitted a carefully preconceived pattern...
...celluloid front, the U.S. still has no pattern except that which Mellett will provide when he gets around to it. Hollywood's and the Government's few war documentaries have been a hodgepodge of patriotic appeals, expositions on tank construction, sugar-coated shots of training troops, etc. These films have failed to keep the U.S. public informed on the progress of the war, to tell it why tires have to be rationed, to relate the vast complexity of global war to the individual citizen...
There had been no blacker week since Singapore. No one vast loss, but a cumulative pattern of loss darkened the anti-Axis world; the fall of Bataan (see p. 18), disasters and failures in the Bay of Bengal and India (see p. 26), unabated retreat in Burma (see p. 26), the consequent peril to China. Heavier than any one of these tidings was the strain of waiting for the Nazis to loose their spring offensive...
...political pattern of the hemisphere remains that of international anarchy." The Latin American countries distrust the Colossus of the North. There is a latent conflict between Argentina and Brazil, an other between Chile and Peru. There is the old grudge between the U.S. and Argentina...
Next came the windows. Under the direction of John W. Eager, 2Dv., the men cemented pieces of colored cellophane onto the glass. To get the accurate shade, in some cases as many as eight layers of the substance were used, and put on according to a definite pattern drawn up by Eager...