Word: patheticism
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Siiri Woodward's belabored Nurse and Larry Stark's meek Doctor are creditable; and Jane Hallowell has an all-too-brief cameo appearance. As Mr. and Mrs. Stanley, Terry Graham and Jean Young are somewhat lacking in a convincing naturalness; and Betty Stoneman needs to tone down her concept of...
Concurring Justices hastened to add some obiter dicta. Felix Frankfurter, "as one whose taste in art and literature hardly qualifies him for the avant-garde," doubted that the picture would have offended even "Victorian moral sensibilities." Said Justice John Marshall Harlan, who felt that Lady should not be banned, even...
In New York, exhibitors anxious to catch the crest of the court-born publicity rushed to get Lady, pathetic though she might be, onto their screens.
Point of No Return. TV newsreels had recorded the whole session, and viewers the state over watched their screens in horrified fascination as their Governor tormented his legislature and himself. From Washington sped Earl's nephew, U.S. Senator Russell Long. Trying to save the tottering Long regime, Russell Long...
Tiger is anything but. His stripes are the marks of fortune's lash on his dark skin; his claws exist only in his mind and are unsheathed only when he swipes at matters his naive mind cannot understand. Tiger is a Trinidad peasant who made a half charming, half...