Word: cleverer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Party Girl (Euterpe; MGM) is a caricature of an old-fashioned gangster picture, done in a clever but vulgar style. All the usual features are there, but all are comically exaggerated. The Little Caesar (Lee J. Cobb) is a sentimental old sweetie-pie with a heart almost as big as his sneer, who passes out diamond-crusted cigarette cases as if they were candy bars, gets a schoolboy crush on a studio still of Jean Harlow, and in fact has only one fault. He frequently rubs people the wrong way: out. The Big Mouthpiece (Robert Taylor), with his white-piped...
...artificial and complex as paper roses, and spiritually they have about as much of the genuine Gothic mood and inwardness as the Mobil oil gargoyle. In Bergman's camera, the most numinous and vital symbols are somehow diminished into mere ideas; but then the ideas seem marvelously clever. And strong religious feelings are dissipated into a sort of arty, romantic, death-wishful mood that is often hard to distinguish from sentimentality; but then the mood is unfailingly hypnotic. Such qualities, along with the fact that the film is beautifully photographed and composed, should make it a very special sensation...
...paper (the St. Louis Globe Democrat). So my cartoons are not made solely for syndication purposes. Issues today are often too subtle to be called black or white; and I, for one, am not going to imagine they are black or white just for the sake of creating a clever cartoon, right or wrong...
...regard." Now the advocate of British disarmament at any price, Russell not long ago was arguing learnedly for a preventive war against Russia. Years before, he was fiercely opposed to Britain's defending itself against the Kaiser's Germany. Groused Rowse: "You need to be very clever to be so silly as that...
...discussing how Mr. Goren was clever enough to break the rules on the particular deal where he defeated the opponents' four-spade contract by leading the nine of spades at trick 3 (from a K-9 trump holding), the article says: "Goren copped the trick with his lurking king, later brought home his king of diamonds to defeat the contract...