Word: backwards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Power lacks Actor Howard's charm and talent, and his inter-century romance with Ann Blyth (who turns up at the end in a 20th century reincarnation) makes something gooey and adolescent out of what once seemed hauntingly otherworldly. The picture may give moviegoers a yen to go backward in time themselves, if only to 1933, when Leslie Howard was starring in Berkeley Square...
...Word for It. The birth is a unique attempt at planned parenthood. Libya, a country of a few backward cities and oasis-speckled sand wilderness about three times the size of Texas, is the first nation brought into being solely by the United Nations. But it is a typical newborn of the sickly Arab world-born into poverty, cursed with ignorance, endowed with only a fighting chance to grow to maturity. The 1,050,000 Arabs of Libya have a word for independence-istiqlal-but little of the heritage to make it work...
...back ("If we work the kids," said Blair, "we get hell. If we don't work them, we get hell"). At an open meeting of the board of education, Superintendent Alexander Stoddard asked for $2,250,000 to hire 500 more teachers and to give special instruction to backward students...
...Point of Departure, a double soliloquy conducted by the two members of a love affair, the interminable sentences curl so concentrically and wearily that they come to sound like a playback on a run-down phonograph. The Bowenism is a sight more readable. Letitia, Emeritus, the story of a "backward" girl whose seduction by a prurient old teacher topples a domino-row of calamities, is managed with the firm Bowen wrist and the sure fingering of details. Yet, somehow, though Author Calisher has fingered her characters, she has not felt them, and does not make a reader feel them...
...leads to standard complications-the risks of exposure, the consternation of her fiancé (Gig Young), the slow budding of love between the pianist and the impresario. But the pattern is neatly woven and filigreed with fun. Eager to truckle to his protegee's whims, Johnson flounders in backward child psychology and flinches under systematic torment by the overprecocious moppet. When he finds her smoking and gulping Scotch in an unguarded moment, she agrees to give up these peccadilloes, but only if he will forgo them too. She manages to squelch his romance with a French singer (Paula Corday...