Word: braved
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lilly Dache's Glamour Book [March 26] admonishes the disrobed woman to ". . . stand in front of a full-length mirror and look at yourself. Be brave, for this is going to be a shock." But what warning does she give "Husband: see also men," who stands with "hands, shaking from nervousness"? Well may Lilly stand, as your picture shows, with her right hand supporting "bulges in the wrong places," etc. I suggest she read her book and buttress the sags...
...Bold and the Brave (RKO Radio) is a war picture as laconic and perceptive as a good reconnaissance report. It tells of a battle in a sergeant's soul, of the lives it cost, of victory lost by a kind of courage and won by a kind of cowardice...
Only a very brave or very foolish man would attempt, as this is written, to prophesy the outcome of the 1956 election. But if I am correct in assuming that we are drawing towards the end of a political cycle, there are certain aspects of the approaching campaign which can be forecast with some confidence...
...have an ambiguity which cleverly both underscore the mock melodrama and cynically comment on it. His violence and forcefulness have a very convincing feigned ugliness. The part of the author, played by Hugh Amory, is honest, and therefore very incisive and highly amusing. Unfortunately for George Montgomery, an Indian brave, his lines apparently call for modern comment on the ludicrous action, thus making him the play's weakening link. A chorus of various boy and girl Indians intone explanation and prediction of future action, in case anyone in the audience hadn't guessed for himself. Costumes and lighting as usual...
...with a brisk survey of the U.S. scene today-"truly a golden age for women"-and then goes straight to work on how to get the mining done. "First take off all your clothes and stand in front of a full-length mirror and look at yourself. Be brave, for this is going to be a shock." It is likely to be more than that-in view of the dreadful revelation of "bulges in the wrong places." a ghastly "sag" in the abdomen, the flesh "flabby" overall, and blown up bolsterwise into "a roll around the midriff," the "splotchy, sallow...