Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tigers, rowing a higher beat than the varsity shell, fell back to a length but appeared to be moving up a little bit coming through the Mass. Ave. bridge. Then Crimson stroke Perry Boyden started pouring on the steam. Still moving at 32, the smooth-rowing varsity boat suddenly pulled out a long half length in the next quarter mile...
...main characters, Lili (Sonia), Rene Brunel (Raskolnikov), Nicole Brunel (Dounia) and Inspecteur Gallet (Porfiry), act their way through the famous intellectual-kills-pawnbroker-and-suffers plot with a considerable degree of accomplishment. Robert Hossein as Rene seems to suffer a bit too dramatically but this is probably in the novel and becomes grating only when it actually has to be seen on the screen. Marina Vlady is properly wistful and ineffectual as Lili, the embodiment of the beautiful soul who becomes a prostitute to feed the family which her stepfather has deserted, and Ulla Jacobssen is excellent in the less...
Besides Dostoevsky's suspenseful plot, Jean Gabin is the element which makes Sin as successful as it is. The part of Insepctor Gallet is tailor made for the smooth, stony-faced Gabin, and he plays it to perfection, although a bit differently from the way Dostoevsky probably envisioned it. Gabin is the cever cop par excellence, and in the manner familiar to anyone who saw Inspecteur Maigret or Razzia, he steals the show...
...gets straight A's in everything else. Physics Teacher Morris Hoffman says the boy is "lightning fast in his thinking; a test that takes most students 40 minutes is a five-to-ten-minute affair for Bill. He never had a formal biology course, and quite a bit of the general aptitude tests are based on biology. He said, 'Oh, I got a book and read it.' He can see right to the crux of a matter. He'll be a great research...
Count Your Blessings (M-G-M). A vague young Englishman (Tom Helmore), known to his friends as "a bit of a clot," has a parting word for the suave Marquis de Valhubert (Rossano Brazzi), who is flying off for a London leave during World War II. "Look up old Grace." Old Grace is his young fiancee. The marquis looks Grace up-and down. "We will marry immediately," he announces. They marry. Four days later the marquis heads back to the wars, and poor Grace (Deborah Kerr) has nothing to do but stitch rugs and eat for two (Sigi is born...