Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like its successful parent, Truth trades more on parlor fun than private largesse, encouraging its 25 million viewers to get their vicarious thrills by playing Hawkshaw at home. The trick is for the panel of four (Polly Bergen, Kitty Carlisle, Ralph Bellamy, Hy Gardner) and home viewers to tell the...
Lie Like Mad. Each week Fates picks his impostors from about 70 applicants ("This is a great outlet for hams"), then puts them through intensive briefings with the "central character." "We like real switches - such as the parachute salesman and the guy who sells accident insurance posing as an Empire...
Generalizing about novel writing, Marquand stated that "any fictional character is derived from the sum of the author's experience. It is impossible," he said, "to transcribe any one person onto a printed page."
The man who was expressly chosen "to help restore faith in the Government" still remains, although he has received more criticism from more directions than any other Cabinet member. Ezra Taft Benson was, in many ways, the very man to embody the idea of the Eisenhower crusade. In 1952, Eisenhower...
The camera, once so skillfully used in the "art" film to delineate character and expression in a drama of everyday people, uses here only squalid scenery and degenerate characters for the dramatic value of the shock they may still contain. If the dialogue is as bad as the subtitles, it...