Word: exconvict
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Liston then started raking Patterson's body with lefts, and the New Yorker began to crumble. The overpowering body blows of the exconvict signaled the finish, and a left to the temple ended the fight...
Thus, the pathos is neither expected nor effective, and is, in fact, somewhat grotesque. This is not the fault of Heinz Ruhmann, who plays the exconvict, Voight--interpreting all of his many moods, from puckish drollery to soggy weltschmerz, with maximum effect. The fault rather lies in the nature of the film...
...first play shows us Mr. Malcolm, a sloppy middle-aged failure and exconvict who has turned to left-wing writing and the bottle. He is confronted after eight years by his twice-divorced ex-wife, a 40-year-old beauty "carved in ice"--vain, mendacious, and desperate--who "can't face getting old." Their reconciliation at the end, we know, will be short-lived. All the other hotel residents are lonely too, but they hate to admit...
...Long Island city yards. Minnesota's Representative Francis Henry Shoemaker, truculent Farmer-Laborite, listened for three nights to revelry across the court in his Washington apartment house. He complained by telephone, finally went to see the revelers. One Theodore Cohen quoted Shoemaker as saying: "I am the only exconvict in Congress* and I am hardboiled. I know how to handle Jews. I'm another Hitler." Then he punched Cohen in the eye. knocking him to the floor. Soon Shoemaker's doctor came & sewed up Cohen's face. Next day Cohen tried in vain...
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