Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the picture is concentrating on character and on the look and life of a small town, it is better than average. But the overall story is inflated; elaborate and unlikely, and the picture tells its story as doggedly, and pokily, as if it were worth such serious attention. The...
The press should stop justifying Wallace by presenting the public with his pathological history, which is too obvious to be interesting. It is vital to draw the parallel between this character and those who eventually reaped a murderous harvest for their countries after taking refuge within a liberal constitution . . . You...
† "Even the wives and daughters of low tradesmen," said one Smollett character, "who, like shovel-nosed sharks, prey upon the blubber of those uncouth whales of fortune, are infected -with the same rage of displaying their importance; and the slightest indisposition serves them for a pretext to insist upon...
Transparent Pantaloons. In this maudlin backstage romance, Betty was supposed to play second fiddle to Alice, Jack Oakie and John Payne. But full of the zest of triumph, she easily stole the show. Alley turned out to be the template for all the uncomplicated, uncluttered Grable musicals (Moon Over Miami...
Husband. This seems to place the responsibility on Frankie. He is, however, the weakest character in the novel. The world that Betty Smith pictures is entirely feminine-a world into which a perception of masculine motives makes its way with the utmost difficulty. The mystery of her husband's...