Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when the grocer called him Tom and the postman brought him rejection slips. Moony's Kid Don't Cry was a peek into the frustration of a onetime lumberjack hooked by big-city humdrum, was acted by Ben Gazzara with such manneristic Method (except during one tender love scene played with Lee Grant as his wife) that the poverty-stricken dreamer often appeared a little paranoid. In The Last of My Solid Gold Watches, Actor Thomas Chalmers was ruggedly convincing as an oldtimer shoe salesman who hides his fear of death and lack of security behind passionate tirades...
...seems probable that she will make suburbia after all, for on the bus, in the final, movie-ending ride away from carefree childhood, sits the man who has waited for her to grow up-Playwright Wally (Marty Milner). Except for his freckles and the wide-rimmed spectacles he uses to help hide them, Wally looks, talks, thinks and acts just like the lawyer or the doctor: conventional, respectable and successful. Thus, Marjorie's parents (Claire Trevor, Everett Sloane) can rest assured that middle-class morality has triumphed...
Brown starter Don Nelson pitched fully as well as Brigham, allowing the varsity only four hits all told, and none after the third. In fact, he might have won the game except for a bizarre and very damaging error by one of his outfielders...
...scientific study, this revealed no discernible difference between those people who left and those who stayed. Dr. Blaine comments, "We found no difference in any category, except that of the report of the physicians' examination made at entrance. The examining internist had doubts about 18 of the 44 people who dropped out, and only about seven of the 44 who stayed...
Another Senior Tutor, Stewart, says, "My feeling is that anybody who really doesn't feel he should be here, should leave, except if he wants to leave because he thinks he's going to flunk the course. My feeling is that leaving is like constructing a building--often you must go back to get materials to complete the structure, a background to finish college...