Word: review
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Task Force (Warner) is an ambitious, full-dress review of the ups & downs of U.S. naval aviation. Thanks to the practiced teamwork of Producer Jerry Wald and Writer-Director Delmer Daves (Destination Tokyo, Dark Passage), it is a thoroughly businesslike job. By playing up the facts and playing down the fiction, they have produced a film which at its best carries the conviction of a documentary and the impact of history in the making...
...review of Madame Bovary, TIME has a good word for the stars, producer and director. But the guy who, along with Gustave Flaubert, gave all these people, including TIME'S astute reviewer, something to shine at-Screenwriter Robert Ardrey, was referred to only as "the Hollywood version...
...Rose Horse. But moderns were more interested in what Delacroix had thought about color, for his free & easy use of it sometimes foreshadowed the Fauves ("Wild Beasts") and modern art. In last week's Saturday Review of Literature, Critic James Thrall Soby described the storm that one of his canvases, La Justice de Trajan, raised in the Salon of 1840: "The picture barely survived the Salon's jury, an astonishing fact when we consider that Delacroix had been painting professionally for more than 20 years and was famous throughout Europe . . . Once accepted and hung, the picture created...
...ringing announcement: "No changes will be made in ABC programs as a result of the FCC regulations. We feel certain that...injunctive relief will be granted to the radio industry...as a result of litigation which ABC will begin immediately." CBS announced it would join in seeking court review of the ruling...
Author Dennis, a saturnine-looking Englishman of 38, is settling down this month in a Hertfordshire cottage after 15 years in the U.S. He has been a top reviewer of TIME'S Books section since 1942, before that, edited the book department of the New Republic and scanned movies for the National Board of Review. A Sea Change, his second novel (his first, Chalk and Cheese, was published under a pseudonym in England in 1934), goes to show, as history has shown, that a good literary critic may also be a good novelist. Not only has Dennis performed...