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Perhaps the most flagrant example of how poor is "Streetcar's" direction is in the final moments, where a doctor and a matron take Blanche to an asylum. The scene lost most of its power when these two characters walked in looking like something out of a freak show and provoked a loud guffaw from the audience...

Author: By Malcolm D. Rivkin, | Title: A Streetcar Named Desire | 8/2/1951 | See Source »

...freak farm accident in Castle-blayney two years ago, Cyril Morrison, nine-year-old son of an Irish farm worker, got himself pinned between a tractor and a stone wall. The accident splintered the boy's jaw and sent a knifelike sliver slicing across the base of his tongue. It cut the tongue off close to the roots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Grafted Brogue | 3/5/1951 | See Source »

William A. Heamann, director of the dining hall, said that the huge pileup was a freak, and probably would not occur again...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Grads Throng First Dinner at Commons | 9/26/1950 | See Source »

Served With Skill. Zanuck breaks up this grueling routine with three-day weekends, occasional flights in season to Sun Valley, where he skis expertly, and four-week vacations on the Riviera mingling with the international set ("They're freaks to me, and I'm a freak to them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: One-Man Studio | 6/12/1950 | See Source »

Harvard appeared certain of a win until Springfield's full-blooded Indian, Jack Patterson, bounced the tying goal off the stick of goalie Sid Clark. Clark was also the victim of another freak shot earlier in the game when a scuffle in front of the cage sent several mud pellets, one of which was the ball, flying into the goal...

Author: By Bayley F. Mason, | Title: Lacrosse Team Ties Springfield After Two Overtime Periods, 8-8 | 5/1/1950 | See Source »

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