Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tracking down young "gulls" (Baltic word for the trade), "glories" (Poznan's description), "artists" (in Cracow) and "debris girls" (in Warsaw, where many practice their trade in dilapidated, damaged houses), earnest Investigator Lastik found only 5% of Warsaw's prostitutes prospering, although his figures do not include "society ladies, presumptuous divorcees and widows with a nice flat and a telephone who are visited by introduction (cost of a night of love: 1,000 zlotys)." Of 310 "notorious prostitutes" interviewed, 106 were homeless. On cold and rainy nights they committed petty offenses "for the purpose of being arrested...
...hidden escape tools in compartments chipped in the bottom of toilet basins. Among the tools, all fashioned from materials in the prison workshops: a blowtorch made from a large grease cup, a brace and bit from pipe parts. Remarking on the careful preparation, Bennett recalled Green's earnest promise of two years before. "All the time he was talking to me," said Bennett, "he was probably planning his next blast-out attempt...
...creative talent between 50% and 75% of a movie's profits. The ill wind has so far blown a windfall of $150 million to the studios for letting their pre-1948 movies go on the air. Except for Paramount, every major studio is also making TV films in earnest. Movie bigwigs curled their lips when such onetime movie performers as Betty Furness, William Lundigan, Lee Bowman and Ronald Reagan emerged as full-time TV commercial pluggers, but now virtually all the studios are in the business of filming commercials themselves. To help make ends meet, once-mighty...
...five masters of the sight gag produced by Hollywood during the silent days. In the sequences adapted from the old two-reelers, these gags prove as good as ever they were, and provide the public with about ten minutes' worth of belly-shaking fun. But when this earnest little biopus turns from Keaton's silent comedies to his noisy domestic tragedies, the guffaws turn to unmitigated guff. Donald O'Connor, who plays the title role, does pretty well with the pratfalls, but when it comes to imitating Old Sourpuss, he ought to go soak his head...
...White House News Photographers' Association contests, shiny-domed Cameraman Tames shares the President's respect for straight, unretouched pictures that tell a story. The deepening groove between the eyes, the tighter lines of the mouth in each succeeding picture picked by Ike reflect the aging, deeply earnest man whom Eisenhower sees in his own mirror...