Word: dumb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...miles north of the city instead of $80,000 in lottery money they really wanted. The college fortunately was unable to move at the time, and when it finally had to, through desperate need of space, the trustees found it less expensive to take over the old Deaf and Dumb Asylum between 40th and 50th Streets, right next to the half-covered coffins in Potter's Field, than to build on the botanical land. That land remained in Columbia's possession, however, gradually increasing in value until it became the site for Reockefeller Center. It now pays the University...
...Slob. The realization that the public could go for an actor who was neither beautiful nor dumb shook Hollywood hard. Brando himself was even more of a shock. When he landed in town in 1950 to make The Men, Hollywood stood there with wide-open arms and a dazzling smile of welcome. But Brando, a sullen kid who went everywhere in blue jeans and a soiled T shirt, stubbornly resisted the town's professional charm. He snorted at the "funnies in satin Cadillacs" and told them precisely, in Miltonic periods of incomprehensible jive talk, what to do with their...
...Michael O'Shea as a pair of Korean war buddies who have moved to Los Angeles for jobs, the show is produced by writers Ray Singer and Dick Chevillat at the Hal Roach studio. Bishop plays the handsome leading man, and O'Shea is cast as the dumb, good-natured, wolf-calling sidekick that Hollywood has decreed as standard equipment for every U.S. soldier-hero...
...Most viewers can take it from there, as the expected foils march onstage in the expected order. There is the fiery girl reporter (Marcia Henderson), who "meets cute" with Lawford as both try to enter the same swinging door; the hardboiled, conscienceless managing editor (Charles Lane); the brash but dumb copy boy (Joe Corey). Faced with all these predictable characters and situations, Lawford still manages to infuse some wit and awareness into the stereotyped proceedings. But what little advantage he gains is lost when Lawford and the tough city editor sit down at program's end to rhapsodize about...
...Dumb Loyalty. Nicholas Ploumbides knew all this when he went to trial in July 1953, but his loyalty was unswerving. He appeared in, court daily in a well-pressed white linen suit and a red carnation in his lapel.; Greek Communism, he told the court, owed its allegiance to the Kremlin and Nico Zachariades. He took the stand only once in the nine-day proceedings. Then, toughing softly into a bloodstained handkerchief, he limited his remarks to a textbook eulogy of world Communism and an attack on "American imperialism...