Word: faults
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ingrid explained things quite clearly to Mr. Lindstrom last May when she saw him in Messina during a 48-hour visit. Our situation was fully discussed. And I want to make clear that at that time the relationship between Ingrid and myself was absolutely correct. It is not our fault, is it, if we cannot get married because Ingrid has been unable so far to obtain a divorce...
...fault lies in the script, not in the acting of the east. Claude Jarman, Jr., as the boy, and Jauno Hernandez, as the Negro, are both excellent, especially the former in his portrayal of terror. Elizabeth Patterson gives another of her solid performances as the old lady who believes in justice even for black people...
Paul Bowles' first attempt at a novel suffers from one salient fault--the author tries too hard. Attempting to depict man's flight into moral chaos and nihilism, Mr. Bowles utilizes a plot too weird to convince and a technique too realistic to carry the reader to the symbolic level...
...editors replied "To each and all of Mr. Hoover's questions we would of course answer 'no' . . ." The difficulty was, they said, that FBI information was often irresponsibly used by congressional committees. This, they added meekly, was "through no fault of Mr. Hoover's or of his Bureau's, so far as we know...
...basic fault of "Alive and Kicking" is, not surprisingly, its material. In spite of the assistance of Milton Berle, Henry Morgan, and four other contributors to the sketches, there are no more than three or four genuinely funny moments all evening. The songs, written by a total of ten people, can be most charitably described as innocuous. Costumes and scenery are similarly undistinguished. Surely such weak efforts do not deserve a cast of 40 and a production costing thousands of dollars...