Word: m
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...M. HANNS...
...Seven Hills of Rome (Le Cloud; M-G-M), let the music lovers say what they will, is a fine piece of entertainment for people who like to watch Mario Lanza pursue the uneven tenor of his weight. As the man gets fatter, the voice seems to get thinner. This time Tenor Lanza, by dint of strenuous fasting, has wasted himself away to a mere 200 Ibs., and his tone is as plump as a Percheron's rump. As a musician, though, Lanza owes perhaps too much to his early conditioning as a delivery man for a wholesale grocer...
...shirts. And what is responsible for the change? A small thing, says Director Clair. The good-for-nothing has discovered that he is good for something-if only to hide a criminal from the police. As he happily explains to his reluctant accomplice (Georges Brassens): "At last I'm useful." Ah yes, Director Clair seems to sigh, the forces of law and order do have such a difficult time-good is almost impossible to stamp out. But then, so is evil, and in the end the moralist acknowledges that...
Clearance Sale. In Milwaukee, taking advantage of a drugstore's offer of "all the chicken you can eat for 99?," John Lietz, 43, polished off four platefuls, called the cops when he was refused more, ended up downing eleven orders in all, explained: "I'm just a bargain hunter...
...after testifying that her husband frequently lined up beer cans and glasses of beer in the living room, shot them up for target practice, once hung a picture of a woman on the wall and fired away with his rifle, muttering between each shot: "This is how I'm going to shoot...