Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The ads for Manhattan's biggest department store sirened: "Guess who's opening Macy's camp center this year? Captain Video himself." Exulted a Macy publicity man: "He has a fantastic pull with the kids. He can pack 2,000 in 400 square feet!" Nobody seems to...
Fact is that Hodge has been effectively unemployed as an actor ever since the show folded in 1955. For two years Captain Video himself lingered on as a hero without a show, introducing cartoons and kiddies' space films. But since last August he has been without a regular TV...
The values of participation in varsity athletics are many and diverse. Football supposedly "builds character" by subjecting its communicants to the rigor and toughness of a highly competitive kind of activity. Crew fosters team-work. Baseball teaches alertness. Fencing develops poise....But one thing that often gets lost in the...
Part of the Eyre tradmark that one cannot miss is his constant use of colored glasses, fitted to his prescription. His dress could not be called fastidious, though he believes clothes are a significant facet of character. "I think one must dress for other people...one should dress according to...
...dialogue is the only source of interest. There is hardly a plot: a sick, lonely, old woman struggles along a road to meet her husband at the railroad station; they start off, then stop to wrangle and reminisce. As for characterization, the minor characters are mediocre comic types, and the old couple merely querulous and sad. Waiting for Godot was even more deficient in plot and character, as these terms are usually understood, but the newer work somehow misses the odd, grim delightfulness that exempted Godot from all the usual demands that are made on a play. All That Fall...