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Word: butted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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The actual Fisher also looked at times like a morose Harold Lloyd, but he is played in the movie by an actor with a rubbery accent, bouncing jowls and a giggle. Most of the real Fisher has been filtered by Hollywood into the Stevens' character: his pugnacious salesmanship and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 19, 1949 | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now, When My Baby Smiles at Me) which at best gives them the pleasant frenzy of a circus calliope. But this one seems to take all the wrong paths. Even the Technicolor scenes are draped with heavy shadows that obscure the more interesting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 19, 1949 | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Hollywood has to cope every day with pressure groups, but last week moviemen felt pressure from a fading minority which it has used as a villain ever since the movies were galloping tintypes. The Association on American Indian Affairs formed a national committee to get better movie treatment of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Lo, the Pressure Group | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Holiday Affair (RKO Radio) is an unlikely but likable little romantic comedy adroitly warmed with Christmas sentiment. It confronts a confused young war widow (Janet Leigh), working as a department store comparison shopper in the holiday rush, with a choice of two suitors: a safe & sound lawyer (Wendell Corey) who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing Dec. 19, 1949 | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

No moviegoer above the age of twelve should fail to spot the victor from the first reel, but both suitors are written and played ingratiatingly enough to make it seem a contest worth watching. Miss Leigh also performs sympathetically in a variety of improbable situations. With the notable exceptions of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing Dec. 19, 1949 | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

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