Word: anna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Anna and the King of Siam. Lively period piece in which Irene Dunne and Rex Harrison prove that boy-gets-girl is not the only kind of movie fun (TIME, June...
...Anna and the King of Siam. Lively period piece in which Irene Dunne and Rex Harrison prove that boy-gets-girl is not the only kind of movie fun (TIME, June...
...Komsomolskaya Pravda (Communist Youth's Truth) one B. Dairedzhiev last week blasted the magazine Oktyabr (October) for "bourgeois sentimentality." He particularly singled out a story called "Comrade Anna," about a Soviet family whose happiness was blighted when the father fell in love with another woman...
...Anna. The Emperor had ruled out ex-WAVES, WACs and officers' wives. He also wanted no zealous young reformers, preferred "a mature person of 50 years or more." But Stoddard told him: "Many good teachers in the U.S. are much less old than that." Brunette, fortyish Mrs. Vining, already tired of newspaper comparisons to Anna and the King of Siam, says she is "considerably older than Anna was [28], but younger than the Emperor had in mind...
This description by a Chinese philosopher of the 3rd Century B.C. serves as a prelude to one of the 34 grim studies in contemporary psychosis (that make up Anna Kavan's Asylum Piece. Despite lushness of metaphor and over-ornamentation of style, it is skillful fiction by a 30-year-old Englishwoman who has spent several years working among the insane...