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Word: exconvict (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...

Author: By Peter E. Quint, | Title: The Captain From Koepenick | 10/27/1959 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By C. T., | Title: Separate Tables | 7/24/1958 | See Source »

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