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Word: characterized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back from a European tour last week, Bowles boosted the impartial character of the U.N. drive, poked at U.S. (and Soviet) aid programs as "political": "[Recipients] are bitter at having to swallow the hammer & sickle or the American eagle. . . ." It was a bumbling beginning, but the American people, whose tax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: The Children | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

Transplanting a show from Broadway to Hollywood involves something more than railway fare. Somewhere in transit "The Voice of the Turtle" acquired new scenes, more people, and a coy chastity. What was once a one-set, three-character production now boasts Wayne Marris, as many extras as the next epic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/13/1948 | See Source »

Despite the fact that additional people and places are now visible, "The Voice of the Turtle" is still essentially a three-character show. Eleanor Parker and Ronald Reagan, while not able to reach the level established in New York by Margaret Sullivan and Elliot Nugent, are quite capable. Eve Arden...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/13/1948 | See Source »

This is one of MGM's English Specials, and the studio's British stable (Dame May Whitty, Reginald Owen, Rhys Williams), accomplished actors all, help it out a good deal. Walter Pidgeon is not very happily cast as Sabre, but he succeeds in making a solid character of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 9, 1948 | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

The leader of the gold-hunting party (Huston), whom the others call "the old-timer," is an almost superhuman character. He keeps the party together as long as he can, and it is only when his wisdom loses its effect on the nuerotic boy-man Dobbs (Bogart), that there is...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

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