Word: convincingness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is commendable candor in the film's telling of its strange love story. Hemingway fans, anticipating how the movie might mistreat the tragic circumstance of the hero's sexual impotency resulting from a battle wound, will be happy to learn that Jake Barnes (sensitively played by Tyrone...
As a spit-&-polish naval attache who takes over the refloated ship after the Amethyst's captain dies of his wounds, Richard Todd is so convincing that the movie conveys a real-thing flavor. It car ries all the blood-and-sweat conviction of a candid film chronicle made...
Who was Lon Chaney? This movie, though taking some drastic liberties with his life, more nearly catches his spirit than any previous try at his biography. The subject was certainly no cinch. The actor liked to assure his rare interviewers: "Between pictures, there is no Lon Chaney.'' In...
¶ A multimillion-dollar project to build Brooklyn's big 2,496-unit Farragut Gardens, since renamed Vandeveer Estates. After convincing the Federal Housing Administration that the housing project would cost $24 million, Builders Morris Kavy, Martin and Louis Benedek and Alexander and Henry Hirsch got a mortgage guarantee...
Reston if he meant to imply that democracy was more difficult to defend than Communism, the President patiently explained: "Look, Mr. Reston, I think you could run into people you have a hard time convincing that the sun is hot and the earth is round . . . Against that kind of belief...