Word: skinful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marshal Vasily Sokolovsky is a courteous man who likes Jane Austen's novels and earthy Russian proverbs. His favorite version of his favorite proverb before he walked out of the Allied Control Council meetings was: "I want to skin this bear before I shoot it." The bear is Berlin's city symbol. By this week, the Berlin bear looked pretty well skinned-and 3½ million Berliners wondered how close the Marshal's well-manicured finger was to the trigger...
...bear of Berlin has lost a lot of skin-but not much of its heart...
Thornton Wilder, no matinee idol at 51, prepared-to play both ends from the middle this week: the male lead in a Berkshire Playhouse version of The Skin of Our Teeth, by Thornton Wilder...
Upton Sinclair's first play in nine years-Giant's Strength-had its 2 ½-hour debut at the hands of a Claremont, Calif. community playhouse. The critics who attended gave it "mixed notices" and confused ones. Some thought it was a sort of cheerful Skin of Our Teeth. Playwright Sinclair, who had stayed away from the rehearsals, stayed away from the opening...
...more charm and taste than most movie stars of either sex. When she sobers, she is outraged. It is necessary to pretend that the genius is driven to drink by a delinquent son (Butch Jenkins), who is borrowed from an orphanage. And so on. Such busy plotting would barely skin by in a play for high-school amateurs, and everybody except Miss Allyson, who would probably put her whole heart into stuff even thinner, plays it in that slothful spirit. But the picture is good enough to pass an idle hour. It ambles from one easy, half-developed comic idea...