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Word: characterized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Playhouse 90: Devoting a 90-minute play to a sympathetic view of a criminal's career is probably breaking new ground on TV and, as such, ought to be encouraged. Unfortunately, in the case of The Mystery of Thirteen, it proved cold, cold ground. David Shaw's version...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Review | 11/4/1957 | See Source »

John McNulty did not create his own most famous character-Mat, the proprietor of a gin mill known as "Mat's." He simply wrote down what the man said. What resulted was that great Irish art form known as conversation, which, at its best, is always above and beyond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Street Scene | 11/4/1957 | See Source »

He Broods Easy. The Irish quality of McNulty's New York is more than the green ice cubes that appear on St. Patrick's Day to startle the unwary. It is a place of great men in small jobs, stubbornly resisting the mere geographical transition from Mayo or...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Street Scene | 11/4/1957 | See Source »

The new book is a raggedly plotted novel whose first-person heroine, Sister Ursula, obviously walks in the footsteps of Monica Baldwin. Unhappily, Author Baldwin's story of a nun who misjudges her vocation also treads close on the path of Kathryn Hulme's The Nun's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ex-Nun's Story | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

Perhaps what makes this film such engrossing entertainment, like the others of the unique series, is its power to make one live episodes which could not happen; Zachary Scott's Dimitrios is more smooth, and more thoroughly lousey than an international weasel could be. Each character plays his part with...

Author: By Walter E. Wilson, | Title: The Mask of Dimitrios | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

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