Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Declaring that "all the reasons which made Eisenhower the preferred candidate in 1952 are applicable to this year's contest-and more," the Cleveland Plain Dealer announced its editorial support for the President...
...runs awkwardly along a hillside, trying to peer ahead through a tangle of shrubbery until at last he stops breathless on a vantage point. The camera becomes his dazzled eye as it reveals spread out before him the Russian lines and advanced batteries, then a wide, uptilted lift of plain, and finally, in the distance, the massed columns of the French moving into position with, beyond them, still more columns suggested by the exploding flashes of sun light on bayonets. Director King Vidor has a master's hand with the steady, drumbeat assault of infantry battalions and the wild...
...film's three stars, only Audrey Hepburn, with her precocious child's head set upon a swanlike neck, looks the part. She is perfectly the Natasha described by Tolstoy: "A dark-eyed little girl, plain, but full of life, with her wide mouth, her childish bare shoulders ... her black lair brushed back, her slender arms . . ." In her playing, Audrey catches the gamine qualities of Natasha, and her softness. What is lacking is the steely courage that would let Natasha brand her flesh with a red-hot iron to prove her love. Instead of a total commitment to life...
...news stories made it plain that the Supreme Court's anti-segregation ruling brought both new hopes and old heartaches to the South. It remained for fiction to shape the facts into a form the heart could not ignore. This task might well have been undertaken by Negro writers such as Richard (Native Son) Wright...
...nomination for President, Old Democrat James A. Farley underwent emergency surgery last week "for the correction of a detached retina." It was not certain whether the retina had been loosened when the card hit Farley or when he snapped his head back at the blow, but it was plain after the operation that Farley's eyesight would still be good enough to distinguish a Democrat from a Republican...