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Word: characterizer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Character. The few non-Communist reporters who have met chain-smoking Liu, uneasily describe him as a "wan wraith in the shadows" who looks like an "underexposed snapshot." His family life is equally shadowy: his first wife "died" in 1945; his second is described as a "handsome" woman from Tientsin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: RED CHINA'S NO. 2 MAN | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

The inspiration for Kookie, Kookie comes from the character of the same name created by Manhattan-born Actor Byrnes on the TV series 77 Sunset Strip. In the show, Byrnes plays a parking-lot attendant who continually combs his hair as an antidote to thought. Warner Bros, noticed how teen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE JUKEBOX: Kookie's Comb | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

The fact is that that best of fathers and husbands, John Wood, has been stealing the firm's money to speculate on the Chicago stock exchange. What interests Author Suckow is how the old Iowans she knew so well square the dreadful event with conscience, with character based on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How Real Were the Virtues | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

Mannie's character is unfortunately undeveloped thus far; Joanna, ignorant of Chopper's past relations with Mannie, seems unduly and too suddenly horrified by the cat's screech; and the southern lingo seems unnecessary because any director knows how white trash talks without Kopit's telling him. But the play...

Author: By Gavin Scott, | Title: The Advocate | 5/6/1959 | See Source »

The fault seems to be with the over-all focus. For as the horror of the situation itself fades into a war movie cliche--complete with goose-stepping, bombing and all the rest of it--as the beauty of Anne Frank's character dissolves into naughty cuteness, we are left...

Author: By Alice P. Albright, | Title: The Diary of Anne Frank | 5/6/1959 | See Source »

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