Word: uncommonly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...girl had to be both beautiful and clever to get by with "strangeness." While the plot of The Strange Woman goes busily along assuming that the heroine is outrageously clever, Miss Lamarr's beautiful face never manages to express anything at all except its own uncommon beauty...
...that the misconceptions of the Bellboys are uncommon. Some others will believe that the food-saving measures of the past term have been "entirely nullified by students purchasing in Square restaurants." The fact is that local restaurateurs have not noticed it, and in no event could food eaten outside set off much of the 1600 pounds of critical flour actually saved for each of four weeks last term. The strictly Lowell House complaint about food quality makes a hollow sound when the House Committee claims that discontent was "traceable directly to the forced food savings program." The House had long...
Battle-shocked Marine John Hodiak wakes up in a naval hospital suffering from amnesia, a fairly uncommon disease that appears to be as prevalent in Hollywood as the common cold. With little more than his discharge papers as a clue, Hodiak sets out to reconstruct his past. His unflagging curiosity gets him a few stiff rights to the jaw, raps on the head, unpleasant threats from sinister strangers and the love of pretty nightclub singer Nancy Guild (rhymes, her studio insists, with wild...
...When the Army tried to clamp down a tight censorship on the whole story, the press naturally played it up as a "Mystery Epidemic." Actually, the babies had been stricken by a disease known and feared by every mother. Called epidemic infant diarrhea, or summer diarrhea, it is not uncommon in hospitals and other institutions where newborn infants live in close contact...
...Without Reservations is a pleasure to watch because it is written, directed and played with uncommon competence. Director Mervyn LeRoy, another seasoned Hollywoodman, knows that the first thing a good movie must do is move. Result: the film has the rare virtues of sustained mood and sustained pace...