Word: pallidity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After several reels, Gardner kisses Taylor, whereupon Taylor slaps Gardner, which seems bad manners even in frontier Texas. Follow some shooting, riding, burning, and some pallid attempts by the scriptwriters to make the whole affair into a kind of road-company Shane. When at last the end arrives, slow as an old mule across the desert, it brings the funniest movie scene in years: Taylor and Quinn shooting each other dead and dropping to the barroom floor simultaneously, like well-rehearsed ballet dancers. Ride, Vaquero! has some exciting stretches, but Anthony Quinn as the bandit provides the only glimpses...
...spies." He was executed, and replaced by Nikolai Yezhov, a madman who carried on the slaughter to the point where millions of Russians were dead or jailed. Yezhov, often styled "the beloved pupil of our leader and teacher Stalin," had his own group of pupils, among them a fat, pallid young man named Georgy Malenkov. After two years in office, Yezhov disappeared. His successor: Lavrenty Beria...
Appointed editor of the ailing Los Angeles News three months ago, William A. Townes, 43, went to work under the impression that he had a free hand. He operated on its makeup, pepped up its editorials, and tried to breathe more life into the pallid News. But Editor Townes, who had doctored other sick papers to success (TIME, Feb. 16, 1948), soon found his patient rebelling. Sacred cows got in the way of many editorial decisions, and Townes found that some stories, e.g., the banning of the movie Limelight, were not considered news. Last week, after 72 days...
...bikinis at Biarritz and baccarat at Nice-but the provincial France of hard-scraped farms, gnarled vineyards, smudgy little factories; of closefisted small shopkeepers, scuff-knuckled farmers and black-stockinged bakers' daughters. It is a France tradition-bound, slow to change, as stolid, solid and unspectacular as the pallid, stucco-faced building in the small town of Saint-Symphorien-sur-Coise where Antoine Pinay was born 61 years ago. His father was a drygoods merchant, his mother a steel-willed matriarch who trusted sternly in God and the franc...
...Sacred Flame comes off much less problem than sermon. There must, after all, be two sides to any really dramatic problem play. This one is not only too one-sided, but is so unheated by life and emotion that Maugham had to keep it going as a rather pallid murder mystery...