Word: brimful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Capone (Burrows-Ackerman; Allied Artists) is amusing proof of the old saw that each generation rewrites history in its own image. In the lurid cinemythology of the '30s, Capone was glorified by Paul Muni (Scarface), Edward G. Robinson (Little Caesar) and James Cagney (Public Enemy) as a snap-brim Satan. In the sober retrospect of the '503, he is reduced by Rod Steiger to a mere whitecollar, clean-desk psychopath-a sort of organization maniac...
...Diary of Anne Frank. Director George Stevens, with a hatful of triumphs already to his credit, goes over the brim with a flawless and massive epic of the Dutch Jewish girl and her family in hiding during World War II. Newcomer Millie Perkins, who resembles a younger Elizabeth Taylor, is almost all anyone could ask as Anne...
...Diary of Anne Frank. Director George Stevens, with a hatful of triumphs already to his credit, goes over the brim with a flawless and massive epic of the Dutch Jewish girl and her family in hiding during World War II. Newcomer Millie Perkins, who resembles a younger Elizabeth Taylor, is almost all anyone could ask as Anne...
What the critters lacked in talent they made up in hard work. They wiggled through more walking lessons than Brigitte Bardot, and rasped themselves raw-handed to perfect the fast draw. Times without number they blasted holes in their own britches, and one of them, while poking his hat brim with a pistol, accidentally shot his own sideburns off. They became the prima donnas of horse opera, and sometimes it seemed as if they would rather pull hair than triggers. "Oh, Hugh O'Brian doesn't matter," Dale Robertson sniffed recently. "He's just a itty-bitty...
Plug. In Bath, England, the city fathers announced that for the first time in two years the Bath water supply was full to the brim...