Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anna Magnani is notably absent from the cast, but there is good evidence that she is not the only actress in Italy. Lea Padovani mixes all the called-for emotions successfully in the role of the poor girl, while rich girl Elli Parvo manages to appear callous and concerned at the same time. Victoria Duse, as the angular hero, casts his lot with the good people at the required moment, and portrays the true heroic metamorphosis...
Young Ed was no determined student. In college his grades were so poor that his classmates wondered how he ever lasted out four years at the University of Virginia. Among other things he flunked a course in government. But Ed had other attributes. He was an impressively handsome, exuberantly friendly man who taught Sunday school, became president of the campus Y.M.C.A. and believed that all the world was just as well-meaning as well-meaning Ed Stettinius...
Incorrigible Punster Marx often uses the double play on words-no matter how obvious it is-to make his misanthropic points ("I used to think a dowry was where you got milk-until I got married. I got milked plenty then"). He can affect poor hearing if it will make a gag go: once he pretended to think a woman described herself as a "monster" instead of a "spinster" ("Oh well," he said, winding up the whole discussion, "there isn't a great deal of difference...
...biographers. Lacking anything sounder than a dubious mixture of octogenarians gossip and Missouri legend on which to base their judgments, they have served up a dauntless, do-gooding 19th Century Robin Hood who carried the honor of the Old South in one hand and a parcel for the poor in the other. Few in the ballad audience wanted it otherwise. If the storybook Jesse was short on flesh and blood, at least he satisfied a secret, belly-warming yen for bygone Wild West heroism...
...James gang robbed scores of banks and trains, killed ruthlessly, and often for no reason at all. Most of the killings were committed at close range, for Jesse's marksmanship was "miserable." Readers who believe that Missouri's most famous killer stole to give to the poor have been Robin Hoodwinked, Author Horan says, and assembles impressive evidence to prove his point. On the credit side, Dingus gets two gold stars from his biographer: 1) "He appeared to be faithful to his wife and to be fond of his children," and 2) "His personal courage never seems...