Word: scenarioed
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...herself was concerned, it was just about time for a little attention. Her story had some of the qualities of a movie scenario in itself. A proud, quicktempered beauty, she was born Emperatriz Chavarri in a tiny village in the highlands of the northern Andes. At the age of eight, she. was chanting rituals before 30,000 sun-worshiping Peruvian Indians. She is still a sun worshiper herself...
Holden becomes a pawn of Norma Desmond's ruthless obsession: to regain her lost glory both as an actress and a woman. In need of a haven and money, he is maneuvered into joining the menage when she offers him the job of patching up the terrible scenario she has written for her comeback as Salome. Weak and reluctant, but never reluctant enough, he stays on as her gigolo...
Author Boyer has hit upon a powerful idea for suggesting the havoc that war can leave in children's minds, but he has hardly done more than suggest it. Writing with an economy that amounts to sparseness, he comes closer to achieving a fine scenario than a fine novel...
Three months ago British Playwright R. C. Sherriff (Journey's End) turned down a $28,000 offer to write a movie scenario for Hollywood. Reason: after paying Socialist Britain's income tax, Sherriff reckoned that he would have only $1,400 of his earnings left (TIME, March 27). Last week another British writer announced his intention to strike against the exorbitant tax rates. From his latest book Legacy, Novelist Nevil Shute (Pastoral, Chequer Board) expects to make about ?18,000 ($50,400), but after paying British taxes he will be able to keep only about...
...spite of the barefaced claim for the glory of Russia, Moscow's critics tended to carp at the picture. "The episodes projected by the scenario," wrote one, "should have demonstrated that Popov's invention was not an accident but the fruit of deep scientific foresight and firm belief in the Tightness of the chosen path. Instead, the film shows Popov's work in such a way that the spectator is forced to believe in a happy concourse of luck...