Word: familiarly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most familiar thing about this picture is its stars, who may have put in too many years as models of romantic discomfiture. The film's manufacturers readily admit this possibility by allowing a bobby-soxer to surrender a park bench to Miss Colbert and Mr. MacMurray with the remark: "Imagine an old couple like that looking for a place to smooch...
...performance of Miss Bergman, very little can be said; the few incidents in which the camera allowed her to act were marred for this observer by recognition of some familiar acting tricks which she has used too repeatedly to be now excusable. My firm belief that Miss Bergman is a fine actress was shaken but not yet shattered. Since she is a partial producer of this monstrous epic, however, her taste and judgment are surely suspect...
...minutes to argue our way past the same ticket taker we had to argue our way past for the Annual Flower Show, The Annual Shoe Distributor's Exhibit, and the Annual Coin Collector's and Philatelist's Colloquium. The publicity agent however was a stranger-only the uniform looked familiar. His name was John Cotter and he were a double breasted pin striped number with a hand painted tie. His hat brim was turned...
...usual, dapper Dick has little or nothing to work with, in this case just his native intelligence and a picture of the culprit facing the other way. For an hilarious moment, the patrons have visions of Powell prowling the globe in search of a man whose pate is familiar, when a clue turns up which sends him scurrying off to Indo-china...
...Still of the Night. Porter's passion for high living is supplemented by a passion for tidiness, which extends to details as small as the boutonniere that is always in his lapel. His Waldorf suite is fastidiously neat. His valet has to be meticulous about keeping familiar things in familiar places: cigarettes, cough drops, bric-a-brac, Kleenex, sharpened pencils. When Porter travels, even his own ashtrays go with him, and he likes them kept so neat that at parties a servant cleans them up almost before a guest can crunch a cigarette out. When Porter went to Philadelphia...