Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nobody really thought Peoria would become Illinois' holy city if Laundryman Triebel beat the Democratic nominee, Tom Madden. One of Triebel's backers on The Bluff, the town's fashionable residential section, made it plain that even reform is liberal in Peoria. Said he: "We've got to have control, here. Gambling will be supervised and the prostitutes will have to be licensed...
...last week's show there was contemporary regionalism, fantasy, plain reporting. One report with gently humorous overtones was 37-year-old Jean-Charles Faucher's Cour d'Ecole (Schoolyard), an action-crowded view of French Canadian boys at play (see cut), in which the figures resembled waves of water bugs contending for three black beans-their footballs...
Critics hoped that the big national show, which will be seen in Ottawa and Quebec next, would give contemporary artists "a sense of tradition and . . . nurtured confidence." Plain citizens regarded the show with that native Canadian modesty that has in it a hint of the defensive. Reported Toronto's weekly Saturday Night: "It is not an exhibition of masterpieces that will cause you to gasp before every other canvas-Canada's contribution to world art has not yet been that distinguished, but it is a respectable collection . . . Canadians may take a certain pride...
Peggy Ann Garner, a lovely child, is perfectly cast as the plain-pretty, primly sensitive little heroine. Dorothy McGuire (Claudia), though much too young to play her mother, again proves herself one of the most accomplished young U.S. actresses. But the standout of the picture is ex-star Jimmy Dunn as the weak, gallant father. Publicity writers did not exaggerate, for once, when they called his performance "the most sensational comeback in years...
Zachary Taylor was a professional soldier, trained in Indian fighting, who commanded his troops "in a straw hat, checked gingham coat and a pair of blue trousers without braid ... a plain American leading a lot of other plain Americans." An able but limited general, his appeal was that of a rustic hero, a fighting frontiersman...