Word: nice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...catnapping her way across the country by sitting up on a three-day and three-night train trip from California to Florida (where she will sell some property). "Of course, my sons wouldn't approve," she confided, "but I like to travel that way. You meet so many nice people in the coach...
...Moon Is Blue. A nice little comedy that uses some naughty words (TIME, July...
Bill the Bandit was a young fellow, 22 years old, with nice blond hair, and a yellow sport shirt. He was out on parole and he was polite; he leaned forward every time he took a bite, and it did not require a genius to see that he was doing so to keep the tomato sauce from dripping on his shirt. But all of a sudden he jumped up and left. When he came back he had a pistol in one hand and was herding before him six scared-looking men he had rounded up at the entrance...
...would jump on ahead of her mother and race to the front of the car. When her mother took a seat, Shirley would come dashing back, babbling ecstatically in a homemade, foreign-sounding tongue. The game had everything a fledgling actress could want. There was a captive audience of nice, admiring old ladies ("What an enchanting child!"). There was a touch of mystery ("What language is she speaking?"), a touch of pathos ("Look how sweet she is to her poor, dear mother") and-Shirley fervently hoped-a big helping of romance ("Maybe she's a princess in exile...
...intimate, as, of course, it was, with the camera practically in your navel.'' Her fellow actors were entranced. Burt Lancaster says reverently that Shirley is "a nugget, a diamond, a pot of gold. She's Babe Ruth. She's Mickey Mantle. It's a nice note for this town that a woman like Shirley can come in and by sheer personality bowl the place over." Starlet Terry Moore was breathlessly thrilled: "Shirley is so lovable you want to throw your arms about her like an old shoe...