Word: hards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hard work lasted 300 days...
...sister, his brother's fiancee and his own fiancee of five years' standing-in-waiting, Birgit Lundgren, a comely and compact brunette of 23. With Birgit on his mighty right arm, Johansson even made occasional forays into the nightclub whirl of Manhattan. In the gym Johansson worked hard on the bags, but treated his sparring partners with loving consideration. None seemed worthy of his right hand, and nobody even saw it in action. Self-appointed experts began to doubt that it had ever existed. JOHANSSON TALKS A GOOD FIGHT, sneered the New York World-Telegram...
Playwright Garson (Born Yesterday) Kanin (rhymes with rain in), a jazz saxophonist during his knockabout days, has managed this much. His novel is cast in the form of a onetime saxman's fond, moody reminiscence of the hard-blowing early '303. Jogged by a telephone call from one of his old partners, the narrator recalls the rise and fall of the combo they formed. The group begins as a trio, built around an astonishingly good young trumpeter. Then the saxman finds a pianist at a Harlem rent party, and the trio sounds even better as a quartet. Bookings...
...Sound and the Fury. A laundered but effective version of Faulkner's novel about a hard man (Yul Brynner) and a wild, bewildered girl (Joanne Woodward) who fight each other and the genteel Southern decay around them as well...
Paths of Glory (at the Brattle, Friday and Saturday). The Saturday Review last year acclaimed this as "the best picture of the year." It is a tough, uncompromising, hard-hitting film about the French army during World War I. Several countries considered it too strong for their audiences and refused to allow it to be shown. In it, Kirk Douglas shows for once that...