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Word: funerall (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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This, alas, is more than one can say of "The Island of Dawn" by William Wertenbaker. The story is about a woman living in New York who is called to her home town in the far south for her twin sister's funeral. She is very much afraid to go...

Author: By John H. Fincher, | Title: The Advocate | 1/7/1958 | See Source »

One way of approaching Igor Stravinsky's new ballet Agon, in première at the New York City Center last week, is through a kind of game. The game: listening to the score alone (on an excellent new Columbia disk) and trying to imagine what a choreographer could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Stravinsky Ballet | 12/16/1957 | See Source »

Unfortunately, Dreyer's defects are almost as spectacular as his virtues. If he is passionately true to himself, he can also be childishly subjective: his conception of the Christ (Preben Lerdorff Rye), for instance, is simply silly. And at times he is pointlessly rude to his audience. It is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 16, 1957 | 12/16/1957 | See Source »

Most delicate problem for the money-making Lassie team came when 71-year-old Actor George Cleveland (Gramps) died of a heart attack shortly before he was to be script-spirited away to the hospital with a broken hip. After consulting a child psychologist, Producer Robert Maxwell decided to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Lassie Stays Home | 12/9/1957 | See Source »

Unfortunately, this glimpse of the profession as a whole narrows down to close shots of Nerac, who by Fin has decided his destiny lies in the direction of a country doctor, bringing succor to illiterate, mistrusting peasants. Young Doctor Malonism never does quite creep into the film, though, because the...

Author: By Walter E. Wilson, | Title: The Doctors | 12/9/1957 | See Source »

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