Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...never have "backpedaled" about Mom, but TIME was correct in saying I like women. It is the intensity of that passion which makes me deplore those who turn into Moms-an addlepated aggregate of self-made tyrants who turn upon truth or freedom as swiftly as upon evil, if either hurts their vanity. And this last is founded on the busty credo that any act of procreation, including the accidental, gives them title to the helm of our currently beleaguered Republic...
...film's few serious moments, Lieutenant Wayne and siren Dietrich fall in love. The Navy objects, making at least one moral quite clear; goodies and evil just don't blend well. Otherwise, Seven Sinners emphasizes the lighter side with some funny lines ("Why don't you come up to my apartment for a snack . . . that's food") and plenty of slapstick. Aside from a few serious scenes which seem clumsy, the film is more than good...
...wicked characters to off-set Bogart's flashy heroism. In this case, Huston and Capote have hit a peak. From a tiny British Major who worships the memories of Mussolini and Hitler, to a German from Chile called O'Hara, the people of Beat the Devil are geniuses of evil and eccentricity...
...Western Allies were collaborating with Russia . . . Allied authorities in Italy favored the insertion of proCommunists into the new administrative setup. At that time, was the hope for a democratic evolution of Communism in Italy exaggerated? Certainly. But was this surprising when this was also the international climate? . . . Thus the evil totalitarian plant had time to grow roots, watering itself on illusions and false hopes...
...cast really stand out. Pippa Scott, playing Frytania, is the Tallulah Bankhead of Bad Fairies, angular and wicked, with a fearsome bit of makeup to suit her evil soul. Slugging it out with the Bad Fairly is Weady Robertson as Beauty, who is the apogee of sweetness and light. Miss Robertson is marvelous in an extremely difficult part, since it is so much more difficult to portray Good than Evil...