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Word: sisterly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...voted to confiscate the $16 million fortune of his principal opponent, ex-Premier Ahmed Qavam (now a fugitive), leaving Qavam's wife & child $160,000. Teheran's airport was crowded with Mossadegh adversaries rushing off for "medical attention" in Europe. Among them: the Shah's twin sister Princess Ashraf, the president of the Majlis, the former army chief of staff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Call Me Dictator | 8/11/1952 | See Source »

Carrie. Polished movie version of Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie, with Jennifer Jones and Laurence Olivier as star-crossed lovers (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Aug. 11, 1952 | 8/11/1952 | See Source »

...Strange Ones. Striking adaptation of Jean Cocteau's Les Enfants Terribles; the story of an adolescent brother & sister living in a strange dreamworld of their own (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Aug. 11, 1952 | 8/11/1952 | See Source »

Carrie. Polished movie version of Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie, with Jennifer Jones and Laurence Olivier as star-crossed lovers (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Aug. 4, 1952 | 8/4/1952 | See Source »

Tasaki gets the old and new Japans squared off against each other by rigging up two brother & sister teams of near-vaudeville quality. Ko-ume, the gorgeous and traditional geisha, can't hope to land Minoru, the weakling son of a count. The girl who successfully bucks Ko-ume is rich, intelligent, beautiful, and a nobleman's daughter besides. Ko-ume naturally does the natural thing: she hops off a cliff. Ko-ume's brother Takeo is something else, a young peasant back from the infantry whose earthiness envelops the count's liberal daughter before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Made in Japan | 8/4/1952 | See Source »

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