Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...museum, a modern, windowless structure of tan Onaga limestone, white polished stone and glass, stands on a three-acre plot of land adjoining the President's boyhood home, where, more than 50 years ago, Ike and his brothers grew vegetables and feed crops. It was built by a group of Kansas businessmen and voluntary contributors, will ultimately cost...
Concludes Keen: "William Shakespeare has given us many a picture of many a life, but unhappily not a word about his own-a most vexatious man . . . Yet it is not difficult to see a pattern from which one might plot a new biography...
Miss Holliday and her two marquee running mates attempt to make up for what the plot lacks in coherence and pace. Playing a playboy with a turn for ear kissing, Peter Lawford is his usual suave self. Jack Lemmon breaks into celluloid as Gladys' camera happy boyfriend. The latter, star of the 1946 Pudding show, seems to have picked up a new habit of dress since leaving Harvard, but his acting ability is only hampered by some of the script's insipidly sentimental lines...
...name, Gladys, Glover, on a four-story billboard in Columbus Circle. The ensuring difficulties confuse the other protagonists of the film while Gladys Glover remains blissfully unshaken. This unawareness, along with Glady's bewildered glances and unrestrained smiles make the humor of the film ample though Mr. Kanin's plot is thin...
...plot alone is at least a bare indication of how well her talent can be utilized. Miss Dietrich takes the part of a vagrant cafe-singer with an ability to incite admirers to riot. Because of this, she is deported from one East Indian island to another, even though her position with cafe society and the Navy remains secure. Her main task in Seven Sinners is to flirt with sailors, look sultry, and sing some of Frank Lesser's best lyrics. When breathing "I'm in the Mood for Love," Miss Dietrich's performance is especially provocative...