Word: comical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...current high of flustered muddle in the Truman Administration and it might be comic were it not so dangerous. The previous high was in 1946 when Truman's Secretary of Commerce, Henry A. Wallace, made a speech in Madison Square Garden calling for appeasement of Stalin. Wallace swore that he had personally shown the speech to Truman beforehand, but nobody ever figured out whether the President changed his mind after the speech was delivered, or whether he didn't realize what it meant in the first place. The White House announced that Harry Truman did not intend...
Father of the Bride. Spencer Tracy shines as the hapless parent in a skilled version of the Edward Streeter comic bestseller (TIME...
...support of Actor Cummings' expert clowning and Actress Caulfield's good looks, the film puts Elsa Lanchester and Melville Cooper on their best comic behavior, and adds a living calendar of twelve Petty girls to help make the time pass quickly...
...arsonist-father; A Rose for Emily, that hair-raising classic of a lady's decline to necrophilia; Wash, a magnificent portrait of a poor white who, after years of loyalty, rebels against his landlord; Dry September, a lynching story to end all lynching stories; A Courtship, a richly comic tall tale about the love rivalry of a white man and an Indian in early igth Century America; and Death Drag, a harrowing story about three hungry, neurotic stunt flyers...
Father of the Bride. Spencer Tracy shines as the hapless parent in a skilled version of the Edward Streeter comic bestseller (TIME...