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Word: slapping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jealousy is a strictly observed rule, she has inspired a surprising amount of viciously unflattering comment. A well-known French actor last week gritted: "I have never in my life hated a woman so much." A German director said: "I never think of that kleine Biest without wanting to slap her face." To the cast and crew of Une Vie, the French picture she has just finished shooting, she was openly known as "The Monster." A French director called her "one of the worst experiences of my life. In that sweet smile I see nothing but bared fangs. Inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Golden Look | 12/30/1957 | See Source »

...scene with the cunning of a crow, and when she was charged with the larceny, she only blinked her big round eyes and vowed that it was only "natural exuberance." One day an actor decided to get even. At a point in the script where he was supposed to slap her lightly, "he slapped me so hard it almost knocked me down." But it was no use. "I cried real tears of pain and looked so genuinely hurt and startled that the audience stood and cheered." Says Director Josef von Baky: "It was all there at 17. The tremendous intensity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Golden Look | 12/30/1957 | See Source »

...fulsome quota of barracks-room and smoking-car bawdry and a fairly steady drizzle of Shulman's arch patter ("Gloria hasn't been a bit well. She ran into this lobster pot when she was water skiing last summer"). Upon Putnam's Landing itself, in a slap-happy ending, falls a distinctly unguided missile. No such fate has befallen Rally Round, which zoomed with unerring prepublication dispatch to its logical target, Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bestseller Revisited, Dec. 30, 1957 | 12/30/1957 | See Source »

Three of the Crimson's goals came on a slap shot by Owen, a scuffle in front of the cage, and a solo by Higgenbottom. The only goal that came as a result of an organized pass pattern was a typical Cleary-Lyle Guttu score...

Author: By James W. B. benkard, | Title: Sharp St. Lawrence Six Tops Crimson Team, 6-4 | 12/20/1957 | See Source »

...worry too much about the hockey team's opening game loss to B.U. The loss, in fact, was probably good medicine for the sextet which awoke last night with mid-season finesse to slap Boston College...

Author: By Bruce M. Reeves, | Title: Hockey Team Slaps BC, 6-1 | 12/12/1957 | See Source »

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