Word: sinistere
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hanns, Hollywood composer and author of a new book criticizing the movies (TIME, Sept. 29), sweated and squirmed under the Washington kleigs as he listened to Committee Chief Investigator Robert Stripling describe him as "the Karl Marx of Communism in the field of music." Like Brother Gerhart, Hanns demanded the...
Eventually, the camera gazes up at a sinister doctor (Housely Stevenson) who proposes to revise Bogart's face beyond the Law's recognition. For several reels more, the hero is visible only as an actor staging efficient silhouettes in a dark suit, his head masked in a glaring...
The fright and suspense of the closing sequences depend largely on the conception of the pathological Udo and on Richard Widmark's remarkable performance of the role. He is a rather frail fellow with maniacal eyes, who uses a sinister kind of falsetto baby talk laced with tittering laughs...
Systematic & Sinister? That was too much for the Most Rev. Richard J. Cushing, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Boston. Said he: "I feel bound . . . publicly to denounce the systematic and sinister anti-Catholicism of organized groups like the committee of ministers which last week returned to this country from Yugoslavia. . . . The...
It soon turns out that he is white-collar-deep in a mess of international jewel-and-art thieves. But the man who has survived the horrors of home (including a terrible little lap dog) is more than a match for sinister Boris Karloff, the Goldwyn Girls in full bloom...