Word: likelies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jean Gabin gives a magnificent performance. The Inspector is not the usual suave type, he doesn't have beautiful girls falling all over him. Not only is Maigret happily married, but he is aging, paunchy, and tired. With all these drawbacks, he still managers to make Peter Gunn look like an inept amateur...
Gabin interprets Maigret as a shrewd man who can trap one murderer by being gentle and fatherly and capturing the other by being violent and disgusted. He understands what motivates a criminal and plays on their psyches like a virtuoso. Sloppy, unimpressive, Maigret is nonetheless the cleverest of sleuths, and Gabin plays him to perfection...
This Navy squad the varsity hopes to defeat Saturday was top team in the country last year. Like most service athletes, the Midshipmen will be big, tough, and in excellent physical shape...
...have to prove we have brains by looking like slobs," remarked a Cabot Hall resident, approving the contest. "After all, we're part of the Ivy League, and should dress accordingly," she added...
...Like this analysis, "reigning and radical existentialism" is an "invitation to construction," for the existentialist not only ignores the "transcendent dimension," but also"performs the more amazing feat of ignoring the actual historical dimension of self...