Word: sinistere
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The rest of the Advocate--and it is, unfortunately, the really literary part--is of negligible value. A poorly developed story by Aristides Stavrolakes, "Sportsmen," contains a certain amount of realistic dialogue, stemming from Hemingway, between a weak personality who owns a barbershop and a couple of sinister characters who...
In a press conference, Vishinsky explained why he considered Yugoslavia's candidacy part of a "sinister underhand design." Article 23 of the U.N. Charter, he pointed out, required that nonpermanent Security Council members be elected "with due regard" to "geographical distribution." According to a U.N. "gentlemen's agreement...
Black Magic was clearly intended to be a superheated spellbinder. But though it boils, toils and goes to no end of trouble, it produces far more spectacles than spells. Spectacle No. i is a fair example. In the midst of a gloomy, Golgotha-like landscape, cluttered with ruffians and sinister...
The Girl In the Painting (Rank; Universal-International) begins with a mere dab of an idea. A British major (Guy Rolfe), dropping in at a London exhibition of wartime paintings, falls in love with a portrait of "Hildegard" (Mai Zetterling), a beautiful displaced blonde, and determines to find her. In...
On the sinister side, Russia's Tass news agency reported that "a certain Douglas" had arrived in Persia for "Alpinistic purposes" and was heading for a town near the Russian border. Translation: Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas and his son, on a Persian vacation junket, planned to climb...