Word: sourly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...termed opposition to Canadian players on American college teams "sour grapes" and said Jeremiah "has had losing seasons for so many years he is frustrated...
...time has just been wasted on a new version of why the crucial letter was not delivered, and dramatic shots of Romeo's wild ride from Mantua. It is too bad that the weakest aspects of the adaptation cluster at the end of the movie, since they tend to sour what is on the whole a perceptive and tasteful...
...name-dropping -Ethel Merman, Dan Dailey, Donald O'Connor, Mitzi Gaynor, Marilyn Monroe and Johnnie Ray-and some of the names drop with a big thud. The show is an Irving Berlin potpourri, containing some good old sweetmeats along with a few fresh-picked sour apples. The mixture will probably simmer steadily at the box office, even though fussy moviegoers feel they have reached the Berlin point. Singer-Dancer Mitzi Gaynor has a figure that suggests a finely machined set of ball bearings, becomingly encased, and Marilyn Monroe will undoubtedly singe the eyebrows off front-row patrons...
...pleasant, kindly and vigorous scenes. On occasion, too, there is a certain piquancy to its childlike scramblings of time and place. As Noah, Menasha Skulnik (The Fifth Season) is not only engaging and funny, but touching and dignified; and Berta Gersten can be funny and touching as his sour-sweet wife...
...Cover) In an icy conference room in West Berlin one day last February, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov sang an old, sour song. After nine years of delay and diatribe, the Soviet Union still refused to sign a peace treaty ending the occupation of Austria. As Molotov droned on, a tall man slouched low in a chair, whittling on a pencil, calmly watching the shavings drop to the floor. When the Russian had finished, John Foster Dulles blew the dust from his pocketknife, snapped it shut and shoved it into his pocket. Then the U.S. Secretary of State leaned forward...