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With her doom plainly forecast in the first reel, Rita is allowed to flounce from bed to worse, leaving a litter of broken taboos that the Johnston office would not permit if she were a virtuous heroine who could live happily ever after. For love of this heartless wench, men die like flies, beginning with an unctuous colonel of dragoons (Arnold Moss), and ending with poor Don José (Glenn Ford). Since wickedness does not pay, Carmen at last ends up with a knife in her own alluring torso. As the gypsy cigarette girl, Rita has a chance to spit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 6, 1948 | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

...each to three years in prison and fined them $7,000 and costs. Said the judge to the old brothers: "You have been engaged in a widescale, sordid, evil and vicious enterprise without the slightest regard or consideration for the patient that consulted you . . . You were cold, vicious and heartless in your quest for wealth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Jugs of Magic | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

...halfway. No student organization has received aid in the past, but music has charms that precedents do not. Furthermore, the Band is unique in that it promotes Harvard good will more effectively than any other student organization. If no aid is forthcoming, the Band will have a pretty heartless Valentine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Heartaches or Harvardiana? | 2/11/1948 | See Source »

There is a little rule in the book of College regulations that is as heartless as it is unbelievable. It goes: "No student shall keep an animal in a College building," and within those few terse words is a world of misery and denied love. Picture to yourself the Yardling who has to leave his beloved goldfish at home for the cook to tend, while he goes out to face the bleakness of Stoughton Hall, alone. A real General Education will have to wait until the onerous ukase is removed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Dog Beneath the Skin | 12/18/1947 | See Source »

...world he becomes a heartless butcher, a quick target for civilian public opinion, a perfect scapegoat for the Pentagon's brass hats, easy prey for congressional busybodies making overseas inspection tours. No pleas, no threats will budge Dennis: he is as adamantine of mind as he is agonized of soul. Eventually he is relieved of his command. But at the very end, his successor is won over to his policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Plays in Manhattan, Oct. 13, 1947 | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

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