Word: jeanes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pretty much of a Scotchman. Hell, he saved his money. The house itself might well be now worth $50,000. But I don't think he spent much more than $25,000 for it." He isn't sure how big the modern mansion really is. His daughter, Jean, had drawn the plans, never got beyond the first floor, which contains a mere six rooms. As for the car, well, it isn't exactly a Cadillac, and it is two years old anyway...
...River. Director Jean Renoir's sensitive story of an English girl growing into adolescence beside a holy river in India; based on Rumer Godden's autobiographical novel (TIME, Sept...
...regret. Stuffy and coldly embittered, he is derided by his pupils, who call him "The Crock"; patronized by the headmaster (Wilfrid Hyde White), who is ready to withhold his pension; cuckolded by a younger instructor (Nigel Patrick), who vaguely pities him; despised by his wife (Jean Kent), who is not only unfaithful but keeps him fully posted on her infidelities...
...River. Director Jean Renoir's sensitive story of an English girl growing into adolescence beside a holy river in India; based on Rumer Godden's autobiographical novel (TIME, Sept...
...theatrical climax is commonplace. Ceram, a West German book editor who has made archeology his hobby, set out to do for his subject what Paul de Kruif did long ago for bacteriology in Microbe Hunters. The result is a highly readable series of biographical profiles: of the Frenchman, Jean François Champollion, who unriddled the ancient babble of the Rosetta Stone; of Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon, who dug up King Tut, and of several more. The biographical sketches carry the story of archeology nicely along, and if the atmosphere of the book is a bit dustier than that...