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Charming monster with insipid eyes that...

Author: By M. P. B., | Title: NAVAL TRAINING SCHOOL | 4/25/1944 | See Source »

Last night, after much ado in the Boston papers, "Lassie Come Home" arrived at the Loew's State and Orpheum theatres. Surprising as it may seem after reading the rather insipid advertisements, the picture is one of the finest to come out of MGM in recent years. It ranks, as the ads have said, with "Random Harvest" and "Mrs. Miniver." But, instead of the case being "great books make great pictures," it is a situation where the acting of a collie has made an overly-sentimental book into a really touching picture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 2/18/1944 | See Source »

...horse, a sequel to her My Friend Flicka. Martin Flavin's Harper ($10,000) prize novel, Journey in the Dark ($2.75), described the degrees by which social success disillusioned a social climber. William Saroyan's The Human Comedy ($2.75), lit with occasional passages of warm humor, became insipid with its determined intellectual baby talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Year in Books, Dec. 20, 1943 | 12/20/1943 | See Source »

...lexicon of Brillat-Savarin, world-renowned gourmet, there is no such word as grits,* But in the U.S. South, from plantation mansion to tenant shack, grits has been part of a way of life for generations. Many Southerners eat grits with every meal, few understand why Yankees find it insipid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: It's a Long Time between Grits | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

Parker's dark sunglasses, grave face and deliberate air help his reputation as a "colorless" player. Tennis connoisseurs found nothing insipid in his management of the first two sets against Segura. Hitting with perfect length on both forehand and backhand, using always the exactly appropriate stroke, and subtly increasing the pace and angle of his shots when Segura left the court slightly open, Parker made just seven errors in two sets. Segura seemed lucky to get one game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: No Golden Age | 9/14/1942 | See Source »

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