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Word: choragus (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nicholas Ray (Knock on Any Door, Flying Leathernecks), who works with the misguided brilliance of a myopic Pygmalion. Almost every separate part of the picture comes to life in one way or another, but none quite fits into the whole. At one moment a character is declaiming like a choragus; at the next he may be slanging to beat Broadway. Even the backdrops are out of sorts with one another and with the story. In one scene Frontierswoman Crawford, dressed to the nines in a Paris gown, sits down to a grand piano in a mat-red grotto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 14, 1954 | 6/14/1954 | See Source »

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