Word: smile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...High Smile. A photographer was the first to appreciate her professional possibilities. He took some publicity stills of Norma Jeane at the defense plant, and dragged her over to see Miss Emmeline Snively at the Blue Book School of Charm and Modeling in Hollywood. Miss Snively bleached Norma Jeane's hair, taught her to lower her voice and smile ("She smiled high, and that made wrinkles"), and "tried to correct that awful walk, but I couldn't -she had double-jointed knees...
...most effective parts of the movie, however, are those which show a routine day in her life at her Connecticut home. With frequent flashes of humor, her eagerness for even the smallest of new experiences here stands revealed. Since she possesses a singularly photogenic face and a beautiful smile, she is a nearly perfect subject for a documentary movie, and the commentary, with fine taste held to an unadulatory key and spoken by Katharine Cornell, needs to do little more than provide for continuity. Helen Keller in Her Story won an Academy Award, and deserved...
...farmers will ease a little. As rain fell over much of the farm belt last week, farmers were far more jubilant than they were over anything that Washington might do for support prices. As farm-area merchants know, when prices are rising, farmers start to look and then to smile and then to buy. Said one farm observer: "A farmer feels a lot better with hogs at $15 if they are on their way up from $11, not on the way down from...
...Soviet leaders are losing friends and influencing nobody. The whole thing has its funny side. But it is too important to dismiss with a smile. Anyone who really knows the British could have foretold some surprises...
...that, and on the way, Author De Vries has punned the reader to a pulp, winded him with laughs, and done what only truly funny writers can do: exhibit man, frail and vulnerable, with such true ludicrousness that what starts as a belly laugh winds up as a rueful smile...