Word: 34th
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Calif. The original Lone Ranger on radio, at 22 Seaton went to Hollywood to work on comedy scripts, including the 1937 Marx Brothers' A Day at the Races. At 28 he began a partnership with Producer William Perlberg that brought Seaton two Oscars: for the screenplay Miracle on 34th Street (1947) and for his adaptation of the Clifford Odets play The Country Girl...
American film makers, slicker and warier, searched for directness in youngsters who also had good looks. Natalie Wood, in Miracle on 34th Street, was artlessly worldly. Dean Stockwell, almost romantically handsome, gave a performance of fearless vulnerability in Down to the Sea in Ships. Stockwell had much in common with Roddy McDowall, who earlier in John Ford's How Green Was My Valley had been one of the first young actors to combine sensitivity and uncertainty without losing the basic strength of childhood. They both anticipated the dreaminess and longing of Brandon De Wilde in Shane...
...shadow of a pair of massive green and white tents, put up to protect the precious racing shells, the 34th annual Eastern Sprints had set up house. This was the culmination of the majestic sport of rowing, the tradition-rich spectacle that focuses all eyes on a set of human machines splitting the quiet waters of the murky Quinsigamond...
...34th Annual Championship Regatta...
...other Opus 200, In Memory Yet Green, is a guide to Asimov himself: a detailed, candid account of his early days in Brooklyn, in the developing field of science fiction, in the worlds of college teaching and book publishing. In Memory, which follows its central character to his 34th year (he is now 59), may not fall into the same class as Rousseau's Confessions. But like the author, it is ceaselessly informative and entertaining...