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Word: feral (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heart as well as the flesh. Colette-like in its rhythms, Author Mallet-Joris' prose moves in sensuous counterpoint between "beauty, cruelty, voluptuousness and suffering, all equally delicious." What is not delicious about Hélène and what finally destroys her relationship with Jean is her feral determination to belong only to herself. Outwardly unmarred but inwardly depraved, she is a female Dorian Gray. But even with an unbeautiful soul, the game of love is scarcely over at 18, and with her penchant for sequels, Author Mallet-Joris may yet salvage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Love Set | 7/16/1956 | See Source »

Whatever the inadequacies, Olivier more than makes up for them. His Richard is an elemental force, the principle of evil itself. The feral face (modeled, Olivier says, on the features of Broadway's Jed Harris and France's Francis I) allures the eye as a great serpent might. And Richard's ruttishness, in the amazing scene of the widow's seduction, is a slimy, cold convulsion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 12, 1956 | 3/12/1956 | See Source »

Early on. and while still sober, she can richly crunch even Coward's soggier lines, tangle with an all-too-cultured maid, or just move or stand still with feral ladylikeness. But not till a few corks have popped does she attain full stature. She is never so grand as when lurching, nor so gymnastic as when trapped in telephone cord. She employs her cigarette holder like a wind instrument, makes her gold scarf as vital to the production as several of the actors. She strikes attitudes so embattled that they seem to strike back, and she can dispose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Plays in Manhattan, Jan. 30, 1956 | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

Fate, however, had not abandoned Barbara. All this time, as it turned out last week, it had been grooming a fifth husband for her-a dark, politely feral Latin named Porfirio Rubirosa. At the time Barbara began reducing, of course, she had never heard of Rubi. He was not yet known to the tabloids as the "Big Dame Hunter," but was just the son of an impoverished Dominican Republic general, a personable lad who wasted energy boxing and playing soccer. Rubi had been brought up in Paris before daddy lost his dinero, wanted to get back to Maxim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOCIAL NOTES: So Tired | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

Inverse Commuters. The aroused Audubon Society, a dangerous adversary, considered the English sparrow Bird Enemy No. 1, outranking the feral cat and the small boy with an air rifle. Pamphlets blackened the sparrow's name. Said Biologist Ned Dearborn of the U.S. Biological Survey: "The English sparrow among birds, like the rat among mammals, is cunning, destructive and filthy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: City Bird | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

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