Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these days of scientific diets and innoculations against all but sin and the common cold, movie gangsters are bigger than ever. With height, breadth of shoulder, circumference of bicept and cragginess of feature, the toughs are of heroic proportions. But two re-releases now in town make the whole crew, from Charles McBraw to Scott Brady, look like limp souffles...
Rainbow on the Road's fatter dividends are paid in local types (traveling songsmiths, drovers, eccentrics) and local talk ("She was plump as a little pig. active as sin, awkward as a calf, and not much more legs on her than a pigeon"). Best of all are Author Forbes's evocations of New England in the four seasons. Her book ends in the late fall: "Crows were out gleaning, looking like blown bits of charred paper. And talking all the time - like crows talk. Far above, the lonely hawk floating. Harvest is over. It is the lone-somest...
...Devil's Smokescreen. "Dancing in itself is no sin. If dancing were a sin, every bishop in every see in the world would forbid it ... But the prohibition of dancing can cause those very sins we try to avoid." The cardinal, who has forbidden all dancing in his diocese, even in private homes, frowned...
...scene, Jane, scantily dressed, does a dance that the Johnston Office regards as "overly suggestive." Even Jane said later that she disapproved of the scene. Last week Archbishop Joseph E. Ritter of St. Louis forbade Catholics in his archdiocese to see the picture "under penalty of mortal sin...
...consists in being a man incapable of functioning as a man. Unlike Aguado, who torments himself, Carmen has found serenity in "the very hugeness of her misfortune." She is in love with a mystic who has renounced her because he believes that "to be happy now is a tremendous sin," and she knows she will never see him again...