Word: leaning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senator McCarthy's type of investigation centers around his practice of disclosing raw charges by unnamed informants as if the information were a proven fact. On the other hand, when loyalty boards and department heads get the same kind of information from the FBI, some of them lean too far in the opposite direction. They say that they have no way of estimating the reliability of the FBI sources or of putting together the bits and pieces of data. Sometimes the accused employee is such a trusted worker (e.g., Alger Hiss...
Hobson's Choice (London Films; United Artists) is a cheerful little slice of death, warmed over and served with some lively comic sauces by Producer-Director David Lean (Brief Encounter, Great...
What a period comedy generally needs is a strong hand in the cutting shears. Surprisingly, Director Lean has succumbed too often to a temptation to stand there with his shutter hanging open and stare at a prodigious exhibition of facial calisthenics. Laughton smirks, pouts, bug-eyes, belches, quivers his wattles, sleeve-wipes his nose, and generally golliwoggs it to a degree he has not attained since The Private Life of Henry VIII...
...trollop, but the sex is discreetly offered between the lines instead of between the sheets. The heroine reaches the pinnacle of her profession when she becomes the darling of the Duke of York, second son of George III and commander in chief of the army. But her stipend is lean, and she fattens it by peddling army commissions. When her c. in c. cashiers her for conduct unbecoming a mistress, she avenges herself by causing one of the juiciest scandals ever aired in the House of Commons. Her noble victim manages at least to stop her from writing her memoirs...
...down on Bow St. tempers were short following the CRIMSON's scorching review of the first winter issue. Commented the reviewer:" "It would seem that the lean years have arrived in purlieus of Mount Auburn and Plympton Streets, for seldom have we previously been favored with such a monumental display of gratuitous imbecility, such wholesome vulgarity of the common or garden variety, or such lamentable paucity of wit and artistry as is represented by this issue...