Word: characterizes
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Both guests had been hating each other at a distance for some time-Pearson because of McCarthy's character-daubing attacks on people Pearson likes, McCarthy because of Pearson's character-daubing attacks on him. The action started before the entree, and it had a certain air of...
In Manhattan, Roman Catholic Bishop Joseph F. Flannelly issued an admonition to be read at each of the seven Sunday Masses in St. Patrick's Cathedral: "We note with alarm and regret the growing custom of holding parties in business offices on the days immediately preceding Christmas. We caution...
The Boultings have succeeded in persuading London itself to act out the crisis as if it were really happening. Their film uses striking documentary detail, a wealth of British character bits; it uses no twists or gimmicks to spoil a logical, harrowing account of how the metropolis tries to head...
Though it gives human, often humorous, color to the grim story, the film never compromises its chilling realism with the conventions of movie fiction. The heroine (Sheila Manahan) is unglamorously plump and dowdy; the young hero (Hugh Cross) wears a rumpled, ill-fitting suit; the Scotland Yard superintendent (Andre Morell...
The Thirteen Clocks is James Thurber's fairy tale of how Prince Zorn, with the help of a mysterious character named Golux, brought time to life, Saralinda to wife, and the Duke to a hideous hereafter. Like all good fairy tales-and The Thirteen Clocks is one of the...