Word: slim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Joan Dexter is far too pretty and slim to play the role of decaying middle-aged Buttercup. To make up for this faulty casting she gives the part an interpretation that is spirited and novel, if incorrect. Robert Peters as Captain Corcoran, Roger Murphy as Dick Deadeye, and David Shapiro as Sir Joseph Porter, and all far better than average amateur performers. Nancy Ryan's Cousin Hebe is one of the finest that I have ever seen...
...endless search for a criminal substance which can be proved guilty of causing the explosive growth of cancer cells, suspicion has settled on an enzyme, hyaluronidase, already known to be a "spreading factor." Last week a slim, blonde, 24-year-old graduate student at the University of Wyoming announced that she had picked up another jot of evidence against hyaluronidase: it is found in abnormally large amounts of sarcoma (cancer of the connective tissues) in mice -a disease much like human sarcoma...
When Anna-Lisa, still slim and pretty at 38, sang her first aria, from Puccini's Gianni Schicci, her bright-colored soprano was tight and quivering with nerves. It loosened up in arias from Gounod's Romeo and Juliet and Charpentier's Louise. By the time she had sung duets from La Boheme and Romeo with Jussi, she had proved she had something more than a talented amateur's equipment, if something less, after too many years away from public singing, than a professional way of using it. She would get a chance to correct that...
...decision, the U.S. court of appeals in Washington held that the Government's loyalty program-created two years ago by presidential order-is constitutional. Loser of the decision was Miss Dorothy Bailey, a slim, 39-year-old Uni versity of Minnesota graduate who was fired from her $8,000-a-year job in the U.S. Employment Service because President Truman's three-man Loyalty Review Board found "reasonable grounds" for believing she was "disloyal" to her Government...
...running debate as to whether they have a new Shakespeare in their midst or just a particularly brilliant writer to be rated somewhere between Noel Coward and T.S. Eliot. For his part, 42-year-old Fry is taking his success with the same equanimity he has shown through slim years as an actor and schoolteacher. With his wife and twelve-year-old son, he still lives in a 6s.-a-week cottage in a Cotswold village, 28 miles from Shakespeare's birthplace, without telephone, electricity or gas. He works through the night by kerosene lamp, drives to London, only...