Word: morbidities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...command, who is bound and determined, as soon as he is mustered out, to run for the U.S. Senate. In his first movie role, Comic Kovacs is approximately terrific, the funniest new funnyface that has been seen on the screen in years. His sneeringly ingratiating personality has all the morbid fascination of a mentholated cigar...
...foot dummy nicknamed Agatha swung from atop the tower of Moors Hall last night. The effigy was a combination of wire, newspaper, and tennis balls all compiled in a neat, morbid package...
...servants go, and they take in transients during the season. They take in two young men from Athens, one of whom (Dimitri Horn) soon has his eye on Marina. At first she is cool. She is bitterly ashamed of her family's poverty, and almost morbid with humiliation when the whole town starts to talk about her mother, who has been beating about the bushes with a local lounger ("The older the hen," somebody snickers, "the better the broth...
...pushed James Byron Dean very close to his brilliant acting ceiling in Giant, once phrased an obituary that is probably far more accurate than the Story: "Jimmy was just a regular kid trying to make good in Hollywood. Someone's making a pile of dough out of this morbid Dean business, and that's one reason they're working so hard to keep it alive. But the full irony of Dean's plan to win fame and glory was that his fatal accident wasn't a part of the scheme. Yet, that really made...
Most horrifying of all (to a novelist), Pinfold hears a man called Clutton-Cornforth reviewing his books on the BBC: "The basic qualities of a Pinfold novel . . . may be enumerated thus: conventionality of plot; falseness of characterization; morbid sentimentality; gross and hackneyed farce alternating with grosser and more hackneyed melodrama; cloying religiosity...