Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suppose you might call Flesh and Fury a message movie. It is all about deafness, sympathy, greed, etc., and every line is loaded--ready to go off in the direction of some great truth. Tony Curtis, as "Dummy" Callan--a deaf boxer who regains his hearing only to lose it again--sums up the moral in one sentence: "I don't feel different." That is the great truth then: deaf people are not sub-human after...
...handout. Of these, Schoeman was able to persuade only 18 to help him in his experiment. The 18 made the long trek south to Cape Town, so that the white men at South Africa's tercentenary exposition this week could see the pygmies in the flesh. Only men and married women went along because, as any pygmy knows, a maiden who drinks water from alien springs will become sterile...
...Inchon landing, the recapture of Seoul and the 1950 drive into North Korea when the marines, battling frostbite and the enemy, had to fall back to Hungnam harbor. But Director Lewis' leathernecks, marching from the halls of Hollywood to the shores of sentiment, are screen stencils rather than flesh & blood marines, and the result is formula heroics...
...Taylor), who is out to hook a blase Broadway agent (Larry Parks). In the course of her campaign, she 1) annoys him by publicly announcing their nonexistent engagement, 2) gets him tangled up in a troupe of twirling moppets at a dance recital, 3) taunts him with being a "flesh peddler." Elizabeth Taylor, ineptly striving for comic form, reveals a photogenic figure, but Parks falls flat on his farce. Completed early in 1951, Love Is Better Than Ever was temporarily shelved for political reasons, after Parks appeared last March before the Un-American Activities Committee and admitted that...
...human being is not now allowed vainly to call for death, whilst the flesh is pinched off his quivering limbs...