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In her sinful screen career, Miss Davis has played many a fetching, high-tragedy bad girl; in Deception she is merely a hysterical bad liar. Hero Henreid is an unlovable, nitwitted neurotic. Claude Rains, as the hammy composer who keeps telling Bette off, is cast as the villain but, by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing Nov. 4, 1946 | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

More an operetta than a musicomedy in treatment, The Firebrand of Florence largely dispenses with dance routines, specialty numbers, personalities (only nimble Melville Cooper as the nitwitted Duke of Florence makes himself felt).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Apr. 2, 1945 | 4/2/1945 | See Source »

Last week a bomb dropped on this comparative industrial paradise. OPM still remained, precariously, in the "no squawks" category, but OPACS was now, according to one radio bigwig, "a bunch of goddam, nitwitted, half-baked college graduates." Reason: a new civilian allocation order for plastics raw materials (induced by an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Trouble in Paradise | 9/1/1941 | See Source »

Twin brothers, sons of a fisherman on a little island off Scotland's coast, suddenly discover that they hate each other dearly. Gavan falls in love with pretty, nitwitted Lucy Morrisy, but it is Duncan who enjoys her, and wins her love. When she is caught, she tells her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sophomoric Scream | 4/22/1935 | See Source »

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