Word: life
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Gates, an investment banker in private life, recently has been serving as deputy secretary after a previous stint as secretary of the Navy...
...most interesting thing about this place is its owner, Lou Catania. A poor-but-honest spaghetti-puller from the old country? Not on your life. He barbered his way through the (U.S.) depression, marrying the boss's daughter. Aften ten years as a railroad brakeman, he surrendered to hay fever (dust in the baggage car) and founded a chain of pizza parlors around Boston and the Cape. "Leaning Tower of Pizza," that inspired pun, brought him national interest and the attentions of a large noodle concern. The Prince Spaghetti Company settled on Tower like a great leaking blimp...
...Story. A quick-triggered account of G-men under fire, somewhat muffled by Agent Jimmy Stewart's home life...
...concerned with race problems peculiar to New York. He shows that the effort of Negroes and Puertan Ricans toward social and economic integration has precedents in the experiences of other immigrant groups. But because of the color bar and economic factors, these newcomers have failed to integrate into the life of the city as well as their predecessors...
...Will Varner, an old, ugly, rednecked, cigar-chomping, big daddy, who likes life too much to bother dying, Orson Welles is the quality part of an only fair production. Welles is Welles, and one is willing to sit through the film two or three times, just to hear him talk like an inebriated bullfrog and act like a bulldog in heat...