Word: clairvoyante
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While he wrestles with his problem, there comes a bid from Washington, to serve on a technical mission to "Alba," a fever-ridden province in a South American country. Harmon grabs at the chance. In Alba, he begins to find new resources within himself. He bucks the "business-as-usual...
Night Has a Thousand Eyes (Paramount), a smooth-surfaced, creaky-jointed melodrama, stars Edward G. Robinson as a vaudeville "mentalist" who finds, to his embarrassment, that his clairvoyant gift is genuine. He feels so helplessly responsible for the catastrophes he foresees that he cannot bear to cash in on his...
Wells was possibly the greatest British journalist since Defoe. To the respectful Henry James he once said that he had no interest in being a literary artist; but three of Wells's novels (Kipps, Mr. Polly, Tono Bungay) are considered the best pieces of genre comedy since Dickens. His...
An odd mixture of tough talk and greeting-card sentiment, Fallen Angel includes a bogus clairvoyant (John Carradine), a church organist (Alice Faye) and a pair of underprivileged lovebirds (Linda Darnell and Dana Andrews). In the resulting tangle, everyone is left to act pretty much for himself. The lovebirds come...
Most of this debate raged in off-the-record secrecy, keeping the names of the disputants from both the Japs and the U.S. public. But a corollary of the argument was a public spectacle: the row over what to do with the Emperor. Undersecretary of State Joseph C. Grew, long...