Word: smartness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dallas, Holland McCombs told the waitress who was serving him-and explaining what the high-cost-of-living had done to her-that he was a reporter. Said she: "Say, you're a smart guy. Why has the cost of living gone up so?" The answer put McCombs behind schedule...
...N.F.L.U. came back under one of its old leaders-dignified, Christian, 59-year-old Komakichi Matsuoka, who has been called the "William Green of Japan" and hates Communists just as much. A more radical group promptly established the N.C.I.U. as a Japanese counterpart of the C.I.O., made a smart but little-known newspaperman named Katsumi Kikunami its chairman. Kikunami (who had a Nisei nephew killed in Italy fighting with the U.S. Army), though no Red himself, accepted Communist support. From this springboard of U.S. patterns, the Japanese jumped into the blue...
Ingrid Bergman was another on Louis' list. His horrid word for her coifs: "vapid." Miss Bergman scarcely knew what to think. Simultaneously, the smart-chart Town & Country published a full-page, seven-picture spread of Bergman hairdos, held her tresses up to its readers as "a shining example...
...relentless demonstration of what a thoroughly corrupt man can do to get ahead in a thoroughly corrupt society. Its cynical moral: sufficient vice usually succeeds and goes unpunished, whereas halfhearted vice -like virtue - is likely to enjoy less spectacular rewards. Mr. Lewin's modification: vice generally gets too smart for its own good. George Sanders, who starred in both of Lewin's previous pictures and is a sort of staff Lothario, by now does this kind of work very efficiently. The supporting cast is competent and the picture is lovingly made and handsomely mounted...
Writer-Director Lewin reportedly contents himself with the assurance that those who are smart enough can still see, in spite of such subterfuges, everything that Maupassant really meant. Those who are smart enough for keyhole-peeping, and no smarter, will doubtless enjoy...