Word: prolonged
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Gaus--the theory being almost exactly opposite to that of the Economics committee. "If the theories and informative data of Government 1 were presented in a more general manner," he said, "the kit for advanced work would be deficient of tools. A general education in government would only prolong the concentrator's materialization as a competent political critic...
...movie's inevitable love interest might have proved a stumbling block; instead, it gives the story a lift. One of Gwenn's friendly neighbors, U.N. Translator Dorothy McGuire, inadvertently receives and passes some of the queer, thus catches the eye of T-man Burt Lancaster. Eager to prolong his attentions, she reads up on counterfeiting and begins spouting counterfeiter's argot. This maneuver sets up a clever scene in which Lancaster gives her a whispered grilling at a nightclub table while wandering violinists serenade them with romantic mood music. The romance also serves the script...
...only thing wrong with "Cinderella" is that it devotes too much time to the activities of the mice. Versatile fellows though they may be, they are super-imposed on the original fairytale, and prolong the picture somewhat. But this is only a minor fault, since most of the time the mice are entertaining...
...they expect to work back through the impressionists, and afterwards tackle Rembrandt, whose thick underpainting overlaid with transparent oil glazes will be particularly hard to simulate. Old masters, they point out, have limited lifetimes. "By making facsimiles before [the originals] deteriorate and then reproducing the facsimiles we can prolong their lifetimes indefinitely...