Word: roughneck
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...good-looking, good-for-nothing roughneck (Ralph Meeker), he comes among a widow who had married unwisely for love; her two daughters, one beautiful and besought (Janice Rule), the other bright and coltishly adolescent (Kim Stanley); her boarder, an old-maid schoolteacher with an unmatrimonial-minded beau; her next-door neighbor, a middle-aged woman chained to an invalid mother. The roughneck and the beautiful girl fall hard for each other: there is a climactic scene where they dance slowly and sexually, while the other women look on-awed, envious, aroused. The fellow is sent about his business...
...stage a lot: she is Sadie Thompson, she is Tallulah cavorting at Bette Davis show, she is a hillbilly singer on TV, a straight singer of musicomedy songs, the slavey wife of a jealous, roughneck husband. She is not at all a dead weight: she knows how to command attention. But it's all a little like watching someone stay on a horse rather than perform as a rider; also a little as if two famous actresses were exchanging roles, and that, to complete the joke, Ethel Merman should turn up as Hedda Gabler. With Bette Davis not pacing...
...tired. I don't remember anything. Leave me alone." Thus veteran French Communist Andre Marty, 65, answered party charges of undermining Communist unity in France (TIME, Sept. 29). To Marty, professional party roughneck who fought in the 1919 Black Sea mutiny, the Spanish Civil War and ir many a skullbreaking French Communist riot, the party gave one month's time for "auto-criticism." Last week, dissatisfied with his "obstinate refusal . . . to confess ... his serious political deviations," the French Communist Party fired him from its ten-man Politburo...
...flight from a tide of troubles: a long siege of family deaths, the withering away of family fortune, the suicide of her young husband, the loss of her home, her job, her reputation. She still clings to a pretense of genteel propriety. But when she crosses Stanley Kowalski, her roughneck brother-in-law, he drags out her past, and thus strips the illusion from the gullible suitor she has all but hooked. Finally, while his wife is in the hospital having a baby, Kowalski brutally ravishes Blanche and pushes her completely over the edge of sanity...
Seaton's story of two sergeants is also neatly designed to serve his other purposes, and in the main it serves them well: Clift is a good-hearted young Midwesterner who approaches the Germans with naive friendliness, and Douglas is a roughneck who loathes them with a bitterness stored up as a prisoner of war. Clift becomes disillusioned in a love affair with a calculating Berlin girl (Cornell Borchers) who hopes to use him as a passport to the U.S. Douglas is shamed by another German girl (Bruni Lobel) who turns out to be a better democrat than...