Word: razors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Earmarked. In Rome, Italy, Romano Pandolfi, sick & tired of being teased about his big ears, grabbed a razor, trimmed them down to pint size...
Feminine Touch. In Lyons, France, bearded lady Mme. Maitre, after mislaying her safety razor, borrowed her husband's straightedge, shaved too close, cut her throat...
...chair, Martin concentrated on getting a grip on himself. "A shave and a facial massage," said Lewis. Barber Martin, who liked to tell people during the coal strike that if he ever got hold of Lewis he would take the famed eyebrows right off, got out his razor. Then a photographer entered, set off a flashbulb. Lewis bounded out of the chair with a growl, grabbed the photographer's film-holder, smashed it, drove him away, sat down again. Barber Martin gave him a shave and a facial massage...
Assigned the razor's-edge task of filming a story that was blatantly unsuitable for a big, star-spangled screen entertainment, Director Edmund Goulding (Grand Hotel, Claudia) did his thankless work with considerable taste and polish...
Pretentious thud that it is, The Razor's Edge nonetheless rates a round of applause for trying to be a movie with an Idea. The real trouble in this case: the movie technicians-including the director-are far too clever and too efficient for their material; it has become dangerous to let them kick an Idea around-unless it is a very, very robust Idea. By the time 4.000 competent craftsmen have focused their cold lights on Mr. Maugham's little sermon, pulled it through 89 dressy sets, photographed it tenderly from every possible angle and spiced...