Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Angeles, a new arrival, pretty Burmese Cinemactress Win Min (The Purple Plain-TIME, March 14) Than, 21, crashed into headlines with seme Oriental slants on life likely to make U.S. husbands her most loyal fans. Said Win Min Than (a bride of a year): "Men are meant to rule and woman's main function in life is to help them on ... Men at home are much like babies and want to be looked after ... To have one's husband do a day's work outside the home and then come home and work some more-why, that...
...from a New Orleans nightspot. Chanter Miles, sixtyish, sounds like a little girl in Lazy River, and at least half her age in Ain't Gonna Give You None of My Jelly Roll (". . . Pas un petit morceau de mon gateau" she chortles in the second chorus). Best item: Plain Ole Blues, a cumulative band number to which the irrepressible Lizzie adds a polytonal obbligato...
...this welter one spinster, one spy and one of the boxers emerged above average. On Studio One, pretty Nina Foch accomplished the considerable job of looking plain as a mud fence in a drama about a thirtyish spinster who gets her last chance at a sad-eyed, vintage bachelor (Edward Andrews). Their hesitant, tongue-tied courtship contained perhaps too many pregnant pauses and awkward gropings for words, but even though the drama bore a considerable resemblance to Paddy Chayefsky's Holiday Song of several years ago, it achieved the agonizing ache and flowering fulfillment of the loveless who finally...
Much of last week's comment on the Yalta papers said that they disclosed "nothing new," meaning not much meat for headline writers. The memoirs of Churchill, Stettinius. Byrnes, Leahy-and calamitous events in Europe and Asia -had long since made plain the outlines of Yalta's decisions. Nor did the Yalta documents add any sensational weapons to the arsenals of those who believe that Roosevelt was infallible or of those who think he was puppeteered at Yalta by a Communist cabal among his own staff...
Marshal Stalin was not interested in proverbs, or in the twitter of small birds. "Marshal Stalin," goes the record, "made it quite plain on a number of occasions that he felt that the three great powers, which had borne the brunt of the war and had liberated the small powers, should have the unanimous right to preserve the peace of the world...