Word: skeletonic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While Carroll Lowenstein and Gil O'Neil fired passes in an offensive drill, "Kermit Tracy," as simulated by jayvee back Ed Finney, aimed in the direction of a skeleton varsity defense. Finney is not so good a passer as Tracy, the Columbia quarterback, so the pass defense was not really challenged...
...reported that Wilder and Brackett started shooting "Sunset Boulevard" with only a skeleton script and improvised as they went along. The method resulted in superior photography with a sprinkling of superb touches. This free development, however, was responsible for overburdening the movie with material which detracts from the fine acting...
Ricardo and the Professor are looking for the murderer of a young "B-girl," (whatever that is) whose skeleton is discovered in a sand dune on Cape Cod. Their efforts are complicated by Elsa Lancaster, who plays the girl's unscrupulous land-lady, a character reminiscent of a malefactory Mad-woman of Chaillot...
Ricardo and the Professor are looking for the murderer of a young "B-girl," (whatever that is) whose skeleton is discovered in a sand dune on Cape Cod. Their efforts are complicated by Elsa Lanchester, who plays the girl's unscrupulous land-lady, a character reminiscent of a malefactroy Mad-woman of Chaillot...
Wrote Critic Eric Newton: "These American pictures catch the eye in a flash, but they are empty." Said the Sunday Observer: "This term 'symbolic realism' is found to embrace the phosphorescent skeleton paintings of Pavel Tchelitchew; a horrific problem picture by Alton Pickens, of the crowning of a dyed ape . . . and Henry Koerner's surrealist picture [TIME, March 27] of a barber playing the violin to his shrouded customers and a monkey-an entertainment which no doubt explains the increased cost of hairdressing in American establishments. Most of these paintings have been worked over again and again...