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Word: naturedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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(Richard Jaeckel) neck in the parlor. Forsaking his usual swashbuckling roles, Burt Lancaster plays the sleepwalking Doc with great earnestness, but his performance frequently makes the character seem wooden rather than frustrated. It is in Shirley Booth's characterization that the movie really catches fire. Making her screen debut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 29, 1952 | 12/29/1952 | See Source »

Photographers enjoy themselves immensely, are all good-natured, and generally play the piano with heinous skill. At work they comprise an efficient staff, competent both with a camera and with the Crimson's treasured engraving machine.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Crime Comp Greets Men Tues. | 11/29/1952 | See Source »

Rocco MARCHEGIANO is a simple, good-natured fellow who goes around hitting people terribly hard. He bruises their bellies, blasts the breath from their lungs, breaks the skin of their heads and generally bangs them about until, brains addled with agony, they fall unconscious. In his case it is a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personality, Sep. 22, 1952 | 9/22/1952 | See Source »

BUT Rocky's early road was not all rocks. He was as brilliant in sports as he was dull in books, and sports mean more to most boys. He could lick anybody near his size, yet he-never suffered the loneliness and frustration of being a bully. Secure in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personality, Sep. 22, 1952 | 9/22/1952 | See Source »

Carrie (Paramount) brings Theodore Dreiser's massive, muddy, turn-of-the-century novel, Sister Carrie, to the screen for the first time* in a polished, rather tidied-up movie version. The film is generally faithful to Dreiser's story about Carrie Meeber (Jennifer Jones), an innocent farm girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 30, 1952 | 6/30/1952 | See Source »

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