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...House Divided. In Montgomery, Ala., Henry and Bertha Williams separated as they had agreed to: he tore down his half of the house and carted it away...
With so much dough riding the throw, Duvivier carefully hedged his bet. His script tore down Tolstoy's complex scaffolding of historico-religious theory, eliminated the subplots, preserved only the central study of a falling woman, with a few glimpses of the high society she fell from. This might have been sufficient if the film had also saved a suggestion of the dreadful glacier-creep of Tolstoy's characterization. Instead, the camera work is uniformly uninspired, and the psychological glacier dissolves into teary slush...
...clotting crowd tore off his clothes, pounded him with shoeshine boxes snatched from ragged urchins, kicked his face and head into a bloody pulp. Then they knotted a tie around his neck and dragged him six blocks. All afternoon his body lay in the gutter before the Presidential Palace while the rain water made little whirlpools around his bare heels. Gaitán had been picked up and carried to the Clínica Central...
Thin-lipped Rightist Gómez, Foreign Minister, president of the conference and backbone of the government of gentle President Mariano Ospina Pérez, was not there. But the rioters poured in anyhow. They threw typewriters out of windows, splintered furniture, tore up records...
...approximately $10 in cash on him at the time of his arrest. The railroad ticket, obtained from Louis Gerstley '45, a special student in psychology, McGowan tore up in the face of the police...