Word: phoney
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...people of the United States have not stood up and yelled "phoney" at the Eisenhower administration's dire warnings of inflation, the junior Senator from New Jersey charged last night in a rambling speech before the Harvard Young Democratic Club...
Involving a critical mission into enemy territory to knock out a bridge, the bulk of the film is concerned with the exploits of our brave Americano amidst a most unconvincing group of gypsies. Particularly grating is the phoney accent meant to simulate Spanish, ably seconded by the blatant and ill-written dialogue. No effort is made to indicate fully rounded characters; both Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman turn in poor performances as Grant and Bergman, nothing else...
...tabbed as his replacement. The reporter's first assignment, on which the future of his career depends, is to prepare a memorial show about the deceased great man. In interviewing the people who worked with Fuller he discovers, however, that the idol of millions of fans was a phoney, detested by everybody who knew him. Not even his mistress could stand the man. The simple device which keeps up a creditable amount of suspense throughout the series of interviews which make up the body of the film is the question of whether the reporter will make the memorial show into...
...burning desire to be a motorcycle racer. He is the eternal figure with little talents who feels that he has a mission to do great things. "Isn't there a circle around my name?" he asks. The world that Mr. Hargrove paints in Memphis, Tennessee is sordid, phoney, materialistic. Yet the reason why the play fails is that Roy Wilson is no better than the world that he rebels against. His "martyrdom" is meaningless beyond the theatrical pathos which is quite effectively created. If the ethics of success or of religion fail to provide an answer, why a neurotic...
...Henry Miller admits readers into his own first meeting with Conrad Moricand. Conrad must be conceded to be one of the least lovely characters of modern times. He was an astrologer, drug addict, scholar, louse, lamprey or -to reduce it all to Miller's own explicit prose-a "phoney bastard...