Word: discomfort
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Such a leading role might be the despair of a skilled actress; for Lana Turner, it is a disaster. Looking less svelte than chunky, she fails even to make the heroine attractive. Milland is a portrait of acute discomfort, and such able players as Tom Ewell and Louis Calhern squeak by in lesser assignments. Wasted in her first movie role, Broadway's Actress Phillips (The Cocktail Party) plays in a wheelchair, but walks away with every scene in which she appears...
Author Stinetorf makes only one pass at romance, quickly drops it in obvious discomfort. Her story might have been better as nonfiction, but its air of authenticity (Louise Stinetorf was an educational missionary in Palestine, spent her vacations in Africa) and its very unawareness of the niceties of fiction keep it from sounding like a bad novel. It is just primitive enough to be fresh...
...happens, the armed forces can get what they need, when they need it ... It is the choice of 'peace' or 'butter,' of mobilizing our strength now, while peace can still be saved, or of clinging to petty wants and petty profits . . . Which shall it be-discomfort or defeat...
...Whole Business. Until 20 years ago, a woman going through the climacteric suffered these symptoms as best she could. Today synthetic hormone shots or hormone pills can reduce the discomfort to a point close to zero. Author Lincoln is careful to point out that most women don't need synthetic hormone treatments. The hormones, she writes, may be dangerous and sometimes produce unpleasant "side effects" such as "sore full breasts . . . dull aching or a kind of premenstrual congestion in the lower abdomen...
...only $763, Northwest Airlines and a group of enterprising bush pilots would fly anglers from New York direct to an Alaskan river which boasts trout as big as baseball bats; New England skippers would provide the picturesque discomfort of a sailing ship cruise on the open Atlantic for only $60; and many a summer hotel was advertising not only tennis, golf, and hayloft theatricals, but "cultural lectures" on Freud and Thomas Aquinas...