Word: frankest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Room at the Top (at the Kenmore). Perhaps the best British film since Guinness and Hawkins teamed up in The Prisoner, this is a deeply penetrating and significant study of English sex and society, with some of the frankest dialogue ever to come across the screen. Won award for "best performance by an actress" (Simone Signoret) at Cannes; named "best picture of the year, 1959" by the British Film Academy...
Room at the Top (at the Kenmore). Perhaps the best British film since Alec Guinness and Jack Hawkins teamed up in The Prisoner, this is a deeply penetrating and significant study of English sex and society, with some of the frankest and most adult dialogue ever to come across the screen. As an aging mistress, Simone Signoret gives a devastating performance that justifiably won the Cannes Festival's award for the "best performance by an actress." Named "best picture of the year, 1959" by the British Film Academy...
True Confessions. He saved his frankest confessions for meetings in Chicago, one of them arranged by Adlai Stevenson, and on the West Coast. Items...
...favor political failure and social commentary, walk swiftly into the room, quickly close the door, stride across the room and pull down the shade, then clasp the interviewer's hand in yours and say, "Comrade!" The frankest approach and perhaps the easiest way to fail is to smirk as you shake hands and say, "Is this really necessary...
...addition to making his frankest re-election appeal to date, Ike used his Cleveland talk to rip into Adlai Stevenson. Without mentioning Stevenson by name, he struck at "politicians . . . who go about the country expressing . . . their worries about America and the American people," suggested that such "worrywarts" should "forget themselves for a while" and "get out and mingle with the people." If they did, he was sure "their worries would begin to sound foolish-even to them." Troubled with an ailing public-address system, Ike evoked only mild enthusiasm from his Cleveland audience...