Word: rehashes
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...table-pounding, the battle of the files went on. The Democrats were not going to let McCarthy get a look at the files if they could help it; they demanded to hear his charges and his proof. Most of his accusations seemed to be a rehash of an old list of 108 names, dredged up in 1947 by the House Appropriations Committee. Since then, presumably, all had been rescreened by the State Deparment's security board (headed by Republican Conrad Snow) or the President's Loyalty Review Board (headed by Republican Seth Richardson...
Slightly French (Columbia) is a tedious rehash of the old Pygmalion theme. This time the cultural spit & polish are applied to a low-life carnival dancer (Dorothy Lamour) by an egotistical Hollywood director (Don Ameche) who transforms her into a phony French film star...
Actually, stripped of its more startling "whereases," the order was a rehash of some of the recommendations made last summer by Assistant Secretary of the Army Gordon Gray with the idea of strengthening the nation's debilitated reserves. The Truman order called for little more than: 1) better reserve training programs, 2) more facilities for Army and Air Force Reserve Corps and the National Guard...
...read your account of Charles W. Morton's attack on the fraternity system at Williams College [TIME, Sept. 27]-and inferentially against the system in general-my immediate reaction was to diagnose his ... rehash of ancient and outmoded arguments against fraternities as a consequence of a recent attack of ulcers, a psychoneurotic ailment that brought to consciousness a childhood disappointment...
This semi-farcical rehash of Madame X, etc. might have been an entertaining movie, but it is done without gaiety, irony, style or even simple fun. MGM, long the world's No. 1 star-polisher, has mishandled the stars in the show. Elizabeth Taylor, who is just beginning to move into grownup roles, is one of the loveliest girls in movies; but here she is made-up and hair-done and directed into tired, tiresome conventional prettiness. Miss Garson has beauty, vitality and professional know-how. These are all visible, yet the performance is almost never joyous or even...