Word: error
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Miss Sullavan realizes that she has made an error, she can find solace in the casting of her co-star. Joseph Cotten, one of the screen's top soft-spoken actors, is supposed to act power-mad, wild and unharnessed...
...book, The Renaissance [Sept. 28]? When in 1927 I wrote Transition, I thought of it as a novel, called it so, and named the central character John Lemaire. While I was in Greece the book was mistaken as an autobiography, and I returned too late to correct the error. Later I consented to have it called "a mental autobiography," which it is; but there were some incidents in the story that never happened to me physically, like the explosion of the Anarchist bomb...The Anarchists looked down upon me for being only a Socialist. The Socialists in their turn excommunicated...
...Simmons is spirited in the role, however, and does capture some of the wistfulness which distinguished Years Ago from standard A Star Is Born cliches. Teresa Wright, who always appeared to be a pretty girl, is made to look careworn and greying as the mother. But an even greater error in judgment than this is the showing of the film on the new Panoramic screen. Since this greatly magnifies the picture, quick movements flicker and blur. Besides this, Spencer Tracy is now not only in front of the viewer but on each side as well. It seems a misuse...
...private who was captured by the British and turned over to the Russians for five years' imprisonment on the mistaken impression that he was a former Abwehr officer (TIME, June 1). A British court which tried Klose's suit for mistaken arrest placed the blame for the error squarely on the Russians, but urged that Hans should be compensated for his sufferings. Said Hans: "I am grateful . . . That they paid is proof that there is good will." ¶Looking pale and wan, Russian Ambassador Anatoly Lavrentiev attended a diplomatic reception in Teheran, his first public appearance since...
...they must do it just right. This puts a strain on the landing signal officer. He must judge the speed of each approaching jet with great accuracy and wave it off for another try if it is moving either too fast or too slow. He has little margin for error and he must make his decision in a split second...