Word: heaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much fervent fans owe to these and other experts of the lens is Holly wood's well-guarded secret. But many an idol stays at the top of the heap because of their magic. They know they must avoid oblique angle close-ups of Clark Gable so that his sugar-bowl ears won't predominate. They quickly learn that a new comer like Ingrid Bergman must be shot from the left as her face is expressionless from the other side. They are careful with close-ups of older beauties like Claudette Colbert and Marlene Dietrich, keeping them motionless...
...exploits, bulldozes the boys around Tacoma's water front. Seasoned, frog-voiced Marjorie Rambeau puts on Marie Dressler's costume; villainized, kinky-haired Alan Hale plays the Wallace Beery part of Bullwinkle, Annie's rival. Like all good skates on the screen, Annie builds herself a heap of trouble before she rescues the mortgage and gets the young folks (Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman) together for a happy ending. The result is passable, not irresistible...
...poke into all the museum's affairs, from blue whales to green sapphires, he has added a lot of vicarious information to his own experiences. Into his latest book, This Amazing Planet (Putnam; $2), Dr. Andrews has packed this miscellaneous knowledge. The book adds up to a fascinating heap of glorified Ripleyisms, of scientific believe-it-or-nots. Samples...
CINCINNATI--A bow-legged ex-third baseman named William Henry Walters, Jr. today turned the American League powder magazine into a harmless heap of ashes as the Cincinnati Reds battled their way to a 5-3 triumph over the Detroit Tigers and evened the World Series at one game each...
...encountered many weird accidents in his career. Once, during a football game, two Holy Cross bruisers knocked down a Harvard back, fell over him in a heap. But instead of picking themselves up, the three men began crawling around the field on all fours. Gus dashed out, fearing that they had gone crazy...