Word: hyperthyroid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After five short-lived assaults on the 47-day endurance record for single-engine aircraft (set by Woody Jongeward and Bob Woodhouse in 1949), two madcaps employed by Dallas' hyperthyroid station KLIF gave up for the time being. Their best effort: 12 hours. Actually, there was little reason for them to keep flying; they had already stirred up a mighty propwash of publicity for Promoter Gordon Mc-Lendon's five-station chain...
...answer was the one he has made ever since the merger was first discussed: "Unification cannot date from the elections but only from Nenni's break with the Communists." Saragat carried the day, but only by a narrow margin. Then, drawn and ailing-he has a serious hyperthyroid condition-he headed off for a month's rest in the mountains. Behind him he left a party frozen in factionalism and no longer able to capitalize on its greatest electoral appeals-the useful services it performed during the years when its leaders held high office in coalition with...
...adult behavior is neither good nor evil. It is just continuously absorbing, as the sex life of a lemming might be to a biologist. Similarly, Claudine punches and teases little Luce Lanthenay merely from a clinical desire to discover the effect of such cruelty on herself. All her hyperthyroid activity has but one goal: to make things happen and then study the results...
Perhaps more important, she is a fine actress. Her acting, combined with her splendid physical assets, always succeed in making Do Santis' hyperthyroid scenario seem plausible. She throws herself into the part completely, and the effect is often overpowering...
...catches 880, and Dorothy Maguire as a U.N. interpreter who had little to do with the original story at all. Lancaster handles a wide range of emotion by wrinkling his forehead (sincerity), rolling his eyes (bewilderment), and flashing a hair-trigger smile (most everything else); Miss Maguire is hyperthyroid. What saves the picture is the warm and careful performance of Edmund Gwenn as old 880, and the richness of McKelway's material. This material was good before the screen writers got to it, however, and they could have turned an entertaining movie into a possibly great one by leaving well...