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Party Girl (Euterpe; MGM) is a caricature of an old-fashioned gangster picture, done in a clever but vulgar style. All the usual features are there, but all are comically exaggerated. The Little Caesar (Lee J. Cobb) is a sentimental old sweetie-pie with a heart almost as big as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 10, 1958 | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

Then there was a meeting of the seven full professors. Again, Briggs was on top of the situation. First he listened patiently to several reasons why the proposal did not make sense.... Brockberg, a stout and voluble man who lectured to large sophomore groups because he generalized easily and had...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SAINT AND THE SCHOLAR | 11/8/1958 | See Source »

Actor Tracy, who bears a certain physical resemblance to Mayor Curley in his political prime, plays the part with more Celtic charm than a carload of leprechauns. The Last Hurrah could easily become one of the biggest sentimental successes since Going My Way left the public quivering like one vast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Two with Tracy | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

And so begins a death scene that for temporal duration (18 minutes) and sentimental excruciation has scarcely been equaled since Sonny Boy kicked the bucket in The Singing Fool (1928). It is a masterpiece that should wring tears from an Ulsterman. But as the henchmen file piteously past the deathbed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Two with Tracy | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

However much the swaggering Reed may have impressed Copeland, his poetry is only an expression of a somewhat sentimental and romantic college youth, with no lasting literary merit. His college prose was somewhat better, and several of his Lampoon articles showed a keen sense of satire. His short stories in...

Author: By Bernard M. Gwertzman g, | Title: John Reed: The Eternal Cheerleader | 10/24/1958 | See Source »

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