Word: cleverness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bossy, reported Bossy in big newspaper ads in the Newburyport News, could act dignified and nice-like whenever the occasion demanded. His campaign for mayor, masterminded by his clever, forceful wife, was a model of restraint. Bossy limited himself to a few dainty attacks on Incumbent John M. Kelleher's spending policies. Last week when the townspeople voted, chunky Andrew Jackson Gillis, onetime sailor and roustabout, was elected mayor by 288 votes...
Wilson may not be able to use the same starting team which faced the Terriers. Right guard Ed Judson, a clever passer and accurate foul shooter, has a sprained ankle and Forest Hansen may start in his place...
...been classed with such cinematic originators as Griffith, Eisenstein and Chaplin, Director De Sica is a moviemaker to be taken seriously. Actually, some of his scenes do suggest Chaplin's mixture of airy charm and down-to-earth bluntness. But thus far, he seems to be merely a clever craftsman with a great facility for squirting clear drops of sentiment into every shadow, gesture and cobblestone. The Bicycle Thief pictures the seamy side of life with no more reality than the average Hollywood movie shows the shiny side...
...devilishly clever plot. Posing as maintenance men, they are hatching schemes to frazzle nerves, and prevent undergraduates from getting their rightful hours of sleep. Their purpose is clear--to turn brother against brother, friend against friend, mankind against itself, to produce a reign of terror of REVOLUTIONARY PROPORTIONS...
George Tobias and Lenore Lonergan play the comedy leads. Tobins tells ancient jokes, postures, grimaces-but fails to entertain. Miss Lonergan, by far the superior performer, is sometimes able to make the audience believe that what it sees and hears is clever; but when she leaves the stage, apathy takes her place. Jack Cole and his troupe of dancers are occasionally interesting; more often they merely wiggle their hands and chase one another in circles...