Word: sloth
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Bank Dick (Universal) is the long-awaited reward for followers of cob-nosed Comedian W. C. Fields. The reward is the more rewarding because his recent pictures were impeded by the disconcerting presence of irrelevant comics. In this one, the Sultan of Sloth finally achieves the kind of delightful outrage which has made his fan list long & faithful. There are 74 minutes of almost clear Fields-as much a one-man show as the fences of cinema formula will allow...
Olson brings out the design and freshens up the colors of this faded legend by putting it under the spotlight of today; turns it into a surrealistic cyclorama of human fate. In the foreground the seven deadly sins of Sloth, Gluttony, Envy, Lust, Avarice, Pride, Anger move like insatiable' ghouls through the golden haze of eternity. The background is left for the individual cyclorama-goer to fill...
Socialist Blum, whose Popular Front has been condemned by Vichy for disrupting French home life, spreading sloth and dissatisfaction among French workers, and generally running France by orders from the U. S. S. R., kept quietly to himself. He wearily stroked his straggling mustache, said little, did little...
...wife," as strongly deprecates the U. S. male's rabbitlike divorcing habits, his "I-can-take-it creed." Of the touted U. S. vitality he remarks: "No one was ever less of a born go-getter than the American. He is almost saurian in his sloth." Nervous instability is quite another matter: "I have never seen so much St. Vitus dance as since I've been here." For some years Wyndham Lewis has been one of the toughest, most provocative satirists alive. It is something of a tribute to the deep hold England has on her sons that...
...sloth, General Marshall at week's end shook Army traditionalists to the heels of their shiny boots. He announced that the Army is not only going to have more tanks and other armored vehicles, but is going to quit smothering them in the infantry and cavalry. His plan calls for a corps of two mechanized divisions, to be set up as a new and separate...