Word: brightness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cirrotta, an ex-G.I., was a bright boy, and he sometimes let people know it. A couple of the fellows who took Comparative Lit. 24 and Ed. 4 with him would testify to that. He always had an answer before the rest of them. He was quick, articulate and by the standards of the football players and their friends, much too opinionated. Maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea to take him down...
...years, Hollywood has kept its eye fixed steadily on the Box Office as the one valid index of public morality and has consequently built up a picture of American life which is as false as it is glossy and as harmful as it is complacent. Now, at last, this bright veneer shows signs of wearing thin. Movies are beginning to talk in earnest and without apologies about how people actually live and how they treat each other. It is a wonderful, healthy sign...
...bright-eyed little Negro girl from Keyport, NJ. rolled into Manhattan with a high-school diploma in her hand, and an idea in her head that she would become a "high dramatic soprano." But the big time was hard to break into: Juanita Hall was 35 before she padded onto a Broadway stage as Bloody Mary, the betel-chewing Tonkinese mama in South Pacific (TIME, April 18) and stole a considerable piece of that smash hit from Mary Martin and Ezio Pinza...
Three days before many of the Quo Vadis staff were to leave for Italy, Peck's eye puffed up. MGM, which needed every bit of the bright Italian summer for outdoor scenes in Rome, feared that he would miss the July 1 deadline. Last week the studio bowed to the fateful intricacy of its own schedule, and put the Roman invasion off to May 1, 1950. When Peck bounced out of the hospital, having lost only two days of shooting on the Fox lot (at the cost of a mere $40,000), M-G-M was already a prisoner...
...same time, however, a conflicting report, touting a relatively bright outlook for prospective wage-earners was issued by the Northwestern National Life Insurance Company...