Word: cleverer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from the drawing room, Katherine Hepburn, in her original role, is ever the actress, never a "star." Spencer Tracy, whom she marries without love and in haste, to succumb at leisure, is ever Spencer Tracy: a big teddy-bear shock-absorber in whose farm-boy's mouth the clever lines seem sometimes out of place...
...plot was flimsy; it was, after all, just a simple courtship within an artificial framework, something that oriental and royal couples go through all the time. Stewart's added persiflage is amusing and unassuming. What makes "Without Love" thoroughly refreshing is the superior acting of la Hepburn, buoyant, mature, clever, with more than peaches-and-cream, and with as much sex as she can muster...
...Paul Joseph Goebbels, the unsuccessful novelist who became the Nazi Party's satirically clever propagandist...
...C.I.O., said the Journal, is a "wizard of public relations." The C.I.O. News's overseas edition, with nearly 100,000 circulation, gets in its aggressive propaganda licks (C.I.O. FIGHTS TO GET VET BACK IN JOB), but sees that the message is "spiced with really clever cartoons, not contentious but just funny." (Apparently, the Journal had half expected the News to class-angle its pinups to the textile shortage.) The Journal's only real criticism was that the C.I.O.'s servicemen's edition seemed to be shy of news about wildcat strikes...
...clever play, with some pointed dialogue and a sophisticated art-gallery air, One-Man Show is spurious drama. It puts slickness ahead of seriousness, sacrifices the characters to the plot. But Jed Harris's shrewd direction-as has often happened in the past two decades-makes the play seem better than...