Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bill had his pick of parts at every studio, and he picked them shrewdly. With each successive hit-Executive Suite, Sabrina, The Country Girl, The Bridges of Toko-Ri-he grew bigger at the box office. From Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing his studio is now sure to gross at least $10 million...
Even the hocus-pocus of Madison Avenue wags cannot conceal the charm of this seething French thriller. Forget the yellow shirt and the unsigned promise. In the vein of a sardonic O. Henry, Diabolique sometimes is ghoulish and gross, and is never very subtle. The ending, quite as startling as the man in the yellow shirt had you believe, induces a feeling of mental ineptitude. You wonder whether you weren't paying attention at the critical moment; perhaps it's because the director, Henri-Georges Clouzot, is simply a very clever...
...Como, with a dashing Italian hussar named Bergami as pro tem king of her heart. Caroline's philandering might well have gone unnoticed by Prinney, who was then Prince Regent, except that when she returned to London, vast crowds of the common people, who hated him and his gross excesses, cordially claimed Caroline as their own and vowed: "We'll make the Prince love you before we've done with...
...most prosperous country in Europe could not afford any more than 9 billion Deutsche Marks ($2 billion) a year for defense during the three-year period required to build a twelve-division army. The NATO allies pointed out indignantly that this was only 5.5% of West Germany's gross national product, proportionally only half what the U.S. and Britain are contributing. Grumbling, they finally accepted Schäffer's figure for 1956 because the German army is so far behind schedule that more money could not be spent anyway...
...Waugh-begone women, Bijou Ardglass and Baby Wentworth, who hunt their gross and boorish businessmen prey. One of the girls ends up in a bad marriage to an Italian. ("His profession?" "I don't think I know you well enough to tell...