Search Details

Word: moms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Loving You (Paramount) is an authorized pseudo biography of the professional career of Elvis Presley. The only substantial departure from fact is that the movie's Deke Rivers is a clean-living Texas orphan, whereas Elvis is actually a clean-living Tennessee homebody with a real mom and pop. The big pitch in Loving You is that Deke, wide-eyed and unspoiled, is victimized by a predatory lady pressagent (Lizabeth Scott) and a scheming bandleader (Wendell Corey). But the harder the venal two try to cheapen and exploit this naive lad, the richer he gets. He just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 15, 1957 | 7/15/1957 | See Source »

...Mom," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mom v. Mao | 7/15/1957 | See Source »

...hear what Lucky Jim is really too gentle to tell, the reader must turn to an unlucky Jim-James Porter, irascible hero of John Osborne's play, Look Back in Anger (TIME, April 22). Look Back is a high-decibel three-act diatribe, mainly on mom, wife, God and country. Hero Jimmy has just written a poem called "The Cess Pool." His wife hovers over an ironing board-one of the endemic props of this school of social realism, together with dirty dishes and wet "nappies"' (diapers). At the slightest provocation Jimmy turns into a verbal epileptic, particularly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lucky Jim & His Pals | 5/27/1957 | See Source »

...home-style funeral takes place. Things pick up with the arrival of Alan Rinsler as Buddy, the son returned from college. His two patter songs about hitchhiking and airplanes are high points in the production. The other members of the cast are also capable, especially Anne Rindlaub as Mom and George Brown as Lou, the cowboy. John Bernard is a sincere Pop with a marvelous farmer accent, and T. T. Meyers is fine as a fiery neighbor...

Author: By Stephen Addiss, | Title: A Tree On The Plains | 2/28/1957 | See Source »

...bombs were falling that ties would not be worn and officers no longer saluted. Author Stewart catches the quickening tempo of panic. As he and a buddy ordered a drink at the posh Manila Hotel bar, they heard a girl with a brittle laugh telling her escort: "I wired Mom that it would be just a fabulous adventure. Fabulous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Americans at War | 1/7/1957 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | Next