Word: dove
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...That Picasso's peace dove become the U.N. symbol...
Invitation (M-G-M), based on a story by Jerome Weidman, bears an astonishing resemblance to Henry James's chilling classic, The Wings of the Dove. Like James's Milly, Dorothy McGuire is a poor little rich girl doomed to an early death from an incurable heart ailment, and her plight provides an opportunity for a pair of fortune hunters. When the film opens, Dorothy-unaware that she has only a few months to live-is being showered with expensive gifts by her grieving father, Louis Calhern, and with little attentions by her husband, Van Johnson. Between presents...
Every day she went down to the cypress tree, among the cactus grove ... She was wiser and subtler now, wearing only a dove-grey wrapper, and sandals. So that in an instant ... she was naked to the sun. (page...
...announced that he was preparing to graft new limbs on infantile-paralysis victims. Soon, he declared, he would show preliminary examples of similar radical grafts, including a goat with donkey's legs, a sheep with dog's legs, a chicken with a pigeon's head, a dove with rabbit's ears and a rabbit with dove's wings. No gonkey, shog, or picken turned up, but Lanza did give newsmen a brief, none-too-close look at what appeared to be a winged rabbit (see cut). He later announced that the rabbird was doing fine...
Only a magic charm can save Toto's flotsam. It comes in the form of a heavenly dove produced for Toto by the spirit of his doting foster mother. With the help of the magic dove, Toto holds the cops hilariously at bay, gives the clamorous poor whatever they want. The wishes of the poor are funny, pathetic, always vulnerably human and sometimes as shabby as the greedy designs of the caricatured plutocrat in plug hat and fur collar. Ultimately, the dove enables them to escape into the clouds on streetcleaners' brooms "to a kingdom where 'good...