Word: drags
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...city, and Madame Tellier (Madeleine Renaud) exhibiting a happy mixture of practicality and sentiment. Jean Gabin, as a shrewd but lovelorn peasant, and Danielle Darrieux, who cries with as much facility as she loves, keeps things going forward. But. like most weekends in the country, this one tends to drag a little on Sunday afternoon...
...home state, McCarthy in 1952 was a drag on his party even before he began to smear the Republican national leadership. Recently there have been indications that McCarthy's strength in Wisconsin has dropped sharply. The Senator seems aware of that. Almost every weekend since his row with the Army began, he has hurried back to Wisconsin on spcechmaklng and fence-mending trips...
...lover. She is busy on a novel about an "orphan of the Saxophone Age." Stephen marries Elizabeth, but the relationship is marred by Elizabeth's dedication to her first love, "this wretched novel-I'm so heavy with it, I feel sometimes as if I could scarcely drag myself upstairs." Stephen not only strays into an illicit affair, but also dabbles in homosexuality. Elizabeth, who makes a cult of "understanding," forgives...
...refusing to talk about the future until something happens at Geneva, the British ignored or refused to recognize the possibility that the Communists might drag out the talks indefinitely, as they did at Panmunjom-and more profitably. Last week the Communists seemed to be quite content to bleed France a little whiter, in the hope that such bleeding would make the French more pliable...
...drag of Marco Millions is especially regrettable since it is the Harvard Dramatic Club's grand effort. Not wholly betrayed by its own ambition, the HDC almost manages to supplement the play's inadequacies with skillful acting, brilliant sets and costumes, imaginative direction, and a specially composed score. As a tour de force for the HDC, Marco is a definite, if quiet, success: the theatre group shows a good store of technical achievement. But Marco Millions is shabby entertainment for an evening...