Word: isn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This team isn't as bad as its record," he said. "They finished so far behind [46 games] because they loafed." The A's next year, Jimmy implied, would have some of the old Dykes hustle...
...Isn't Feminine...
...Teaching is sort of a substitute for writing." (Wilder taught at Lawrenceville and the University of Chicago). "You can get wrapped up in it, but somehow, in the long run, it isn't the same feeling...
...sometimes good purple theater, is a kind of botch. The violence is not too surprising; as a satirist, Huxley has always liked to draw blood and leave welts. But beyond that, like many essentially critical talents seeking to be creative, he goes to extremes, and overcreates; when he isn't being literary, he is being lurid. And here, without the armor of style, he lunges out with every rusty saber of theatricalism. The Gioconda smile is rather a maniacal laugh. And the production-with Basil Rathbone hamming as the husband and Valerie Taylor brilliantly overacting as the woman scorned...
Pardon Our French (produced by Ole Olsen & Chic Johnson) isn't nearly humble enough. Pardon Our Effrontery is the least it should entreat for, and there would be nothing intemperate about Pardon Our Existence. Olsen & Johnson, after achieving the utmost in noise and nuttiness with their Hellzapoppin cycle, have now plunged to the depths of unpalatable boredom. Adopting different and sedater tactics, abandoning the raucous for the merely raw, they have a way of making everything they touch turn to lead...