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Word: roles (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rest of the cast is equally good. As the effeminate killer, Jean Desailly is babyish and hysterical; Annie Girardot and Lucienne Bogaert as his wife and mother respectively are just demonic enough to explain his mental condition. In his short role as the gigolo, Gerard Sety is amusing and properly nervous in his frank scene that is the comic high point of the film...

Author: By Alice E. Kinzler, | Title: Inspector Maigret | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...realize NSA's imperfections," said Elizabeth H. Parker yesterday, "but we do believe that something must be done throughout the nation to encourage and stimulate student analysis of student concerns. We feel that NSA can and does have a real and vital role...

Author: By Mark H. Alcott, | Title: Open Letter Asks Students To Join NSA | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...attending the Warsaw Opera Ballet school. Ten years later when the Nazis overran France, Lydia's father Wladimir became a Resistance chief for the French underground's F-1 foreign-born unit, and the 17-year-old Lydia became an invaluable spy. Each day she played the role of an ingenuous, admiring schoolgirl watching Nazi troop movements; at night, from the Lipskis' Pigalle apartment, "Cipine" radioed her findings to London. Handy with pen and brush, Lydia, by 1941, was F-1's chief cartographer. When the infamous female double agent "La Chatte" betrayed the Fi, Lydia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: La Plume de la Résistance | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

Margaretha Walk yesterday displayed an attractive and well-trained voice in the title role, and W. Clarke Hudson brought more than enough skill to the part of her would-be-detective spouse. Peter Brown was amusing in the mute role of the butler...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Reefers and Ringers | 12/10/1959 | See Source »

President Eisenhower's modern version of the Tale of the Arabian Nights, while mercifully only 19 days long, bears all too unfortunate resemblance to the original. At a time when the West is in vital need of specific policies and concrete leadership, he is playing the role of Scheherazade, spinning fanciful words in the hope that if the West can only keep talking long enough the essential problems will be somehow eroded away in a new spirit of Geneva, or Camp David, or perhaps Kabul. Khrushchev's memory, however, is likely to be better than that of the Sultan Schahriar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Arabian Knight | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

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