Word: thrilling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reveals Sartre's ability to melodramatize ideas, to make a story suddenly flash with "theater" or a speech with intensity. But Red Gloves takes a good half of the evening to become interesting, and never becomes impressive. Between the two extremes of which Sartre is master-the phony thrill and the incisive speech-lies a whole human world he barely grazes; his situations ring hollow, his people seem paperbacked. Only Hoederer, in Actor Boyer's fine portrayal, has shape or color; indeed, the best of Red Gloves is what Boyer brings...
...impromptu bar, three foghorns four bells, 20 girls from local educational institutions, and a ten-mile ride in a charted MTA streetcar livened up the twilight hours for the tuxedoed thrill seekers...
Rope (Transatlantic Pictures; Warner) is an Alfred Hitchcock thriller. The story: two young men, fresh out of college, strangle a young friend-just for the thrill -and hide the body in a chest.To sharpen their excitement and selfesteem, they serve a buffet supper, off the murder chest, to the victim's father (Sir Cedric Hardwicke), sweetheart (Joan Chandler), unsuccessful rival (Douglas Dick) and a beloved former teacher (James Stewart...
...thrill of this first sight of Red Top still persists and is felt by everyone who has been fortunate enough to get there, including not only the crew squads but the managers and waiters, all undergraduates. There is the companionship and devotion to the cause so characteristic of crew rowing everywhere, which comes to its full strength...
...felt urged to look about me at the large afternoon crowd. There were matronly house wives, fresh from the side of their kitchen ranges and their radios. There were truant school-boys looking for a weekly thrill to help let loose their natural energy. In front of me was a very young mother with her shopping bundles and a copy of the Boston Record on her lap, and beside her was what has been rightly called the hope of our country--a squirming baby...