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Word: fahn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brando is supposed to be a Southerner-though his accent sounds as if it was strained through Stanislavsky's mustache. When he first meets Hana-ogi, he believes that "fraternization is a disgrace to the uniform." But he has to admit that she is "a fahn-lookin' woman," and the color line soon becomes as vague in his mind as the meridian of Greenwich. "I will love you, Gruver-san," she murmurs to him one day, "if that is what you desire." That is what he desires, all right, and after much too much Brandoperatic declamation about "what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 16, 1957 | 12/16/1957 | See Source »

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