Word: forlornly
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...their native element, the Theatre Ballet put on Pineapple Poll--another premiere--adapted from Gilbert's Bab Ballad. True to the Gilbert and Sullivan formula, tragedy and comedy have play, in this case on board the H.M.S. Hot Cross Bun. Elaine Fifield shows great talent for the comically forlorn gesture in her futile attempt to attract the Captain (David Blair), who keeps a crew of ladies in disguise...
Lowry abandoned his academic style. Using an almost childishly simple technique, he carefully outlined the silhouettes of the grubby buildings, brightened the industrial wastelands with little islands of color, reduced the crowds of slouching pedestrians to a series of forlorn smudges...
...glimpses are all he gets. Ignored as a poor relation, both inside the factory and out, he drifts from loneliness into an affair with a plain, forlorn girl (Shelley Winters) who works on the same assembly line. Suddenly, his luck turns. He gets a promotion, and with it an entree to the socially elect circle in which his wealthy relatives move. He falls giddily in love with the queenliest young beauty of the set (Elizabeth Taylor), and she with...
...world's biggest circulation with such stories as NAILED HER FATHER'S HEAD TO THE FRONT DOOR. From then on W.R.'s Journal outplayed the World at its own scare-head-hunting game. It was the Hearst-Pulitzer tug-of-war over Richard Outcault's forlorn Yellow Kid that brought on the day of the colored comic strip, and gave "yellow journalism" its name...
...squalid realism. The script gives the hoodlum some depth as well as menace; he is stupid, confused, worried sick, and for all his bitterness and bullying, wants eagerly to be liked. The acting is first-rate, not only by Garfield, but by Shelley Winters, deglamorized as the simple, forlorn pickup whose home he invades, by Wallace Ford as her father, grimly swallowing his self-respect, and Selena Royle as the distraught mother...