Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hollywood's first Academy Award for her acting in Seventh Heaven, a gold-plated Oscar statuette was worth about $150. The value of most gewgaws has risen since then, but Oscars have outstripped them all. Hollywood publicists have long since discovered that these "noncommercial" citations for artistic merit have a specific box-office value: a mere Oscar nomination can add about $100,000 to a movie's gross. An actual award, if well exploited, may be worth...
...happy to see in your Dec. 1 issue that that great American, Walter Mitty, has become so firmly integrated in critical parlance as to merit comparative mention in three TIME departments: Cinema, Theater and Books...
Arthur E. Sutherland, professor of Law, gave a short rebuttal to Love's argument, stating Kaufman's interference was not great enough to merit importance and that the Rosenberg's middle man--the mechanic--could have given valuable material...
...life painters. His After the Hunt is the public favorite at San Francisco's California Palace of the Legion of Honor. Harnett painted it for the Paris Salon of 1885, "to discover whether or not the line of work I had been pursuing had or had not artistic merit." Paris liked the picture...
...Seven Year Itch (by George Axelrod) bagged a batch of fine reviews on opening night. It possesses a lively popular theme. It is full of humorous, situations. It boasts an engaging leading man. What it lacks, unfortunately, is any real merit as a play...