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Word: sinistere (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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The movie is hampered by occasional Hollywood cliches. There is the gangster type: the sinister leer over the villain's left shoulder and the final gun battle with the police surrounding Garfield and his girl; and the gay ending type: bells tolling and people dancing in the streets.

Author: By Edward J. Sack, | Title: The Moviegoer | 4/30/1949 | See Source »

One Way Up. His new paintings are his best yet. Kingman composed each one as elaborately as a Chinese puzzle, lit them with hectic dabs and flashes of bright color, and peopled them with wistful or sometimes sinister figures that seemed to hover uncertainly about the edges of his pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Meeting of East & West | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

Time to Awake. A less sinister, but equally significant situation was described by Vermont's Senator Ralph E. Flanders as existing in mass-production enterprise, where the worker performs a specific operation, planned by people he does not know, often for reasons he does not understand. He has no...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Mid-century Appraisal: ORGANIZATIONS | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

The 74-year-old former Prime Minister assented that "Europe would have been Communized and London under bombardment some time ago but for the deterrent of the Atomic Bomb in the hands of the United States," and claimed that fear of the West's friendship, not of its hostility, lies...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Churchill Warns of Russian Plans in MIT Talk | 4/1/1949 | See Source »

This picture is packed. It's got everything but a wild west chase. The story of a British psychiatrist who can't solve his own problems, "Mine Own Executioner" bonsts a murder, a suicide on a tenth-floor ledge, a hair-raising ladder climb, a schizophrenic, a plane going down...

Author: By Rafael M. Steinberg, | Title: Mine Own Executioner | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

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