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Word: skeletonic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Tests Attack in Scrimmage | 10/4/1950 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Arne L. Schoellor, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 9/29/1950 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 9/1/1950 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Americans Abroad | 8/21/1950 | See Source »

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