Word: personer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past couple of years. His portrayal of Ally is remarkable; and the part is unusually long and demanding. Teena Starr is appealing as the young, lonely widow. Avril Gentles holds Sophie under control much of the time, but has a tendency to push her acting into burlesque. Donna Person and Edward Finnegan provide outstanding support...
...science, filmed in "terror-color," concerning a fellow who has learned how to decompose and recompose matter electronically. Soon he has accidentally concocted two creatures consisting of parts of himself and parts of a horsefly. Fox, now that its Fly is open, offers a careful "$100 to the first person who can prove it can't happen...
Aside from vocal matters, he has to be a master of gesture and movement. Walking is particularly important here; I am tempted to say that you can tell more about a person from his walk than from any other thing except his speech. An instructive case in point is Alec Guinness' performance in Bridge on the River Kwai. Guinness must have employed at least two dozen different walks for this role, and he was thereby able to convey even without a word, the subtlest changes of condition or attitude...
...There is no evidence that the human race is to last forever and plenty in Scripture to the contrary effect. Though, as you say, the suffering entailed by nuclear war would be ghastly in its scale, one must remember that each person can only suffer so much; and I do not know that the men and women affected would suffer more than those do who day by day are involved in some appalling disaster. There is no aggregate measure of pain. Anyhow, policy must not be based simply on fear of pain...
...Anna Piper, an English authoress from Lower Mall, London, described her novels as "light, middle-class, and sexy." "I'm almost the least 'academic person' in the crowd," she said. Her novels include Early to Bed, Green for Love, and The Hot Year. Mrs. Piper finishes a book a year and has a seventh...