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Stuart groaned, "you don't really want to call this guy a 'dastard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CREATION OF A THESIS | 4/10/1981 | See Source »

...limited engagement (through July 15) at Broadway's Cort Theater, the man who mumbled so effectively through two Godfathers on-screen turns Shakespeare's "bunch-back'd toad" into a smarmy caricature villain out of silent movies and old comic strips; he personifies the sort of dastard who forecloses the mortgage on the family farm and threatens the virtue of fair young damsels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Madcap Villain | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

...STREETS OF NEW YORK are drenched in crocodile tears in this gay musical spoof of Dion Boucicault's bustling and be-bustled 19th century tale of a dastard of a banker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Jan. 24, 1964 | 1/24/1964 | See Source »

Though the film is shapeless and its ending sissified (O'Hara let his hero go to hell, good woman and all), there are a few nice touches. Says a married chick to a dastard who is fumbling with her farthingale: "I think I'll go put on something a little more comfortable, like my husband." And when an overheated party girl who is trying to climb into Newman's cummerbund tells him, "I'm crowding 19," he asks, "Years or guys?" Actress Woodward is sexily soulless as a wife who flies her scarlet letter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 18, 1960 | 7/18/1960 | See Source »

...York-born author worked in one too). There is flighty April Morrison a little breath of bedspring from Colorado, done in by a dastard who tools a white Jaguar. He refuses to marry her, but-Author Jaffe admits New York men are not wholly vile-he recognizes that there are some occasions on which a Jaguar is not proper. He shows up to escort April to the New Jersey abortionist in a rented, chauffeured Cadillac...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: All the Sad Young Women | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

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