Word: sluttish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sluttish earth-mother figure and the doomed, self-destructive wastrel have appeared before in Eugene O'Neill's plays; some day--if it has not happened already--a Freudian scholar will write a book confirming our suspicions as to what these figures meant to their creator. Meanwhile, here they are again, livid with agony, struggling to find more than a painful, temporary peace in one another's arms...
...daughter, a kind of pre-Lolita of coquettish innocence, promises to lead him to freedom but never does; the jailers themselves stage an elaborate comedy only to laugh at his false hopes for escape. His past life emerges as a base and saddening farce-his bastard birth, his sluttish wife, his crippled, oafish children who are not really his. And always there is the maddening Alice-in-Wonderland logic by which it is not he who is victimized but they-his family, his jailers-their regular lives cruelly upset by his tasteless act in getting himself condemned to death...
...might give his life. He is ridiculed by his captain (Tenor Paul Franke), who seems to stand for all the bluster of petty militarism. He is used as a guinea pig by a doctor (Bass Karl Doench), a sadistic, fanatical embodiment of science. Finally, he is betrayed by his sluttish mistress Marie (Soprano Eleanor Steber), and he stabs her. Wozzeck himself drowns trying to recover the discarded knife. In a poignant last scene, their child (Alice Plotkin) trots off, unaware and innocent, on his hobbyhorse to view his mother's body...
...Come Back, Little Sheba (Hal Wallis; Paramount), a film version of the 1950 Broadway hit play (TIME, Feb. 27, 1950) about a reformed drunk and his sluttish wife, starring Shirley Booth, who appears to be a cinch for a best-actress nomination (see below...
...under constant pressure. A harassed jeweler (Anthony Ross) lives over his shop with his long-suffering, short-tempered wife (Margaret Feury). Their son won't take a job in the shop and can't keep a job elsewhere; their grown daughter can only have stylish dates on sluttish terms; their neglected, bewildered eight-year-old runs away...