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Word: actes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about baseball and made it into a cinematized version of This Is Your Life, with Tab Hunter playing the clean-cut All-American boy. In fact, he never ceases to look as though he just stepped out of a Gillette TV commercial. It's not that Hunter can't act, but as a singer he makes a better baseball player, and as a baseball player, fortunately, he has a double...

Author: By Richard E. Ashcraft, | Title: Damn Yankees | 10/17/1958 | See Source »

...other words the Student Council would be even less representative of the students than it is now. If close to one third of the members were to be Administration-appointed, how could we expect the Council to act as a "voice" and a "pressure group" for the undergraduates? Ronald L. Nuthall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANTITHESIS | 10/16/1958 | See Source »

Hoffmann also pointed out that the weak Fourth Republic, doomed since 1954, will be replaced by the Fifth Republic, under which the President, almost certain to be Premier De Gaulle, will be given the power to act as arbitrator among the various organs of government and as a unifying force in the crumbling French empire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hoffman, Algerian Student Clash Over Status of French Colonies | 10/14/1958 | See Source »

...opera--but a one-act opera. Fellini has made his movie with careful attention to every detail except the patience of his audience. But his sombre exhaustiveness gives La Strada an essential truthfulness in spite of the melodramatic violence. The stark, stony backgrounds, for instance, of which we see so much: no carpenter could have put them up, no paper-mache could duplicate them. They are real...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: La Strada | 10/14/1958 | See Source »

...creamy package deal with ABC involving about $2,000,000, Bing will do two hour-long shows a year for five years, also turn out ten filmed shows, for which he will act only as producer. Groans Bing: "I know I can't get by much longer singing." Many who heard him last week will howl in disagreement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Old Master | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

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