Word: seldom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even Peru's rightists, who for a quarter century had hated Haya de la Torre with a bitterness peculiar to Peru, had seldom accused him of lacking courage. Over the years in which he fired Peru's depressed people with a hope for a better life, he had been in & out of prison, had known exile, lived underground. His party had often been guilty of violence...
...does his best to exploit the emotions of the one decent girl (Debra Paget) he has ever known. All this heelish behavior is shown to be worse than mere lawbreaking, and all of it is shown to be part & parcel of a lawbreaker's mentality. The movies seldom attempt so much, and seldom carry it out with such knowing attention to character and detail...
...bring about economies in the management of Stillman Infirmary. In 1946-47 more than $141,000 out of a total expenditure of $423,000 went to maintain a large, year-round staff at Stillman. Ninety percent of the time, more than half of Stillman's beds are empty, and seldom is the whole staff busy. As the committee points out, the large staff is a worthwhile form of insurance against epidemics that should not be given up. But the Hygiene Department has given no conclusive reasons why the permanent staff at Stillman could not be reduced, while Med School internes...
...seems to like him except the voters," was a political byword in Los Angeles. Mayor Bowron, a slow and cautious man, had guided-but seldom led-his city through its most phenomenal decade of growth and development...
...River (Howard Hawks-United Artists). When people discuss the real art ists in picturemaking, they seldom get around to mentioning Howard Hawks. Yet Hawks is one of the most individual and independent directors in the business. Even when he has a vapid chore to do, he gives it character; when a picture really interests him, he gives it enough character to blast you out of your seat. Red River, which Hawks produced and directed, clearly interested him a lot. It is a rattling good outdoor adventure movie...