Word: oscarization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Certainly first on a long list of totally impossible features (which includes acting, plot, direction, and even the title) is Greer Garson, an old Hollywood warhorse who still seems to be trading on her "Mrs. Miniver" Oscar. Miss Garson in "Desire Me" gives one of the finest exhibitions on record of the old, or Smithfield variety of acting. She uses all the ancient tricks of the trade the mobile eyebrows; the long, significant pauses; the staring eyes; the mighty gasps of emotion. In fact, she can't even stand still and listen without overacting...
...American Public Health Association, the prizes are intended to stimulate efforts for mass lifesaving. They are given to medical scientists or administrators who have contributed most toward fighting the major fatal diseases. Individual winners get $1,000 and a gold statuette of the Winged Victory-a kind of medical Oscar...
...Jolson is half as lively in front of a microphone as he is in conversation around his Hollywood swimming pool, Kraft need not worry. The agency is spending at least $20,000 a week on the show, in which Al is supported by acid-tongued Pianist Oscar Levant. Kraft offered Al a fat four-year contract, without options, 39 weeks a year, with two weeks off in every...
...Apostles' nor the Nicene Creed defines it, and the nature of grace has been the subject of theological controversy since the Church was young. Those who want to hear more about it will welcome a little book, published last week, by the Church of England's Rev. Oscar Hardman-The Christian Doctrine of Grace (Macmillan...
...short, fashion was up to its old tricks-peddling, as Oscar Wilde observed, "that by which the fantastic becomes for a moment universal...