Word: lookers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...infantry soldier, becomes a wounded hero and learns the worldly lesson that glory lasts but a day. A little while later he learns that the lovely little girl he befriended has become a prostitute. Novelist Marshall never lets the abbe get too far away from a good-looker. During World War II, a beautiful Jewish refugee whom he tries to help is executed by the resistance. Many of his fellow priests are theological hypocrites who do him dirt at every turn, and when blindness threatens, his simple confidence in a miracle cure at Lourdes is disappointed...
...jokes." His favorite stunt is no joke to Albers. At first glance his paintings look rigid and definite to the point of dullness, but there is nothing definite about them. Through tricks of contrast and perspective he makes the shapes in his painting shift and change as the looker looks, even makes the colors take on varying hues. "You see I want my inventions to act, to lose their identity. What I expect from my colors and forms is that they do something they don't want to do themselves. For instance, I want to push a green...
Mencken noted the industrywide confusion concerning a name for TV fans. He was unimpressed by televiewer, viewer, looker and looker-in. Mencken's contribution: "I suggest trying gawk...
...Guys from Texas (Warner). Jack Carson (comedy and song) and Dennis Morgan (romance and song) stop off at a dude ranch run by quite a looker (Dorothy Malone), who can also sing. The act the two guys put on in the patio, for the other guests, would probably break the monotony of life on a dude ranch more successfully than it breaks the monotony of watching this picture. The guys are suspected of theft but finally catch the real crooks. They are moderately amusing when they horse around with a psychiatrist (Fred Clark). They even appear, in caricature...
After a tired group of Coach Dick Harlow's players trudged their way to the Lapham Field House to assemble their gear when the Bowl game was over, the band did not forget them. They assembled underneath the second story looker room and serenaded the gridders with their entire repertoire...