Word: misses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, Miss Farmer interviewed researchers, nurses, hospital attendants, superintendents, and others. Leonard found that Memorial's highly effective working laboratory was unspectacular and full of quiet purpose. What he couldn't help remembering, however, were the jolly children in Room 102 L, undergoing treatment for the dread disease, leukemia. When he sat down at his typewriter to try to tell his story clearly and accurately, without oversimplifying or sensationalizing it, the children in 102 L "automatically" became the lead...
...Dostoevsky ends. The rich, exuberant flow of dialogue, incident and atmosphere characteristic of the Russian master has been choked to a pedestrian trickle. Dostoevsky's brilliant insights into the tortured motives and emotions of his lovers have paled into klieg-lighted stereotypes. Much of the time Peck and Miss Gardner act as if they had been stranded at a sedate costume party. In other scenes, when they try for a truly Slavic intensity, they seem to be acting out a burlesque on the whole school of Russian novelists. A few supporting players, including Ethel Barrymore, Agnes Moorehead and Frank...
...Shelley Winters) who was his girl friend in the happy-go-lucky war days. Next morning when Miss Winters is found to have disappeared, leaving behind a bloodied scarf belonging to Powell, he takes his next false step. Instead of reporting to the police, he sets out to run down the murderers and is presently up to his ears in big-time racketeers, a ferocious police dog, and a presumptive case of rabies...
...Cabin played in blackface by Marilyn's family, and the 1918 Armistice exploding in headlines and parades. Everything, in fact, is so crowded and cluttered (including the sound track which now & then goes slightly hoarse) that little room is left for nostalgia. In the midst of the uproar Miss Haver sweats out two whole decades and a dozen styles of dance routines. Though fresh and appealing in her pigtail period, she is never quite convincing as Broadway's toast...
...Miss Liberty...