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...hard to find an unglamerized western. "Gunfighter" is one of them, a tight, tense, carefully-timed motion picture that can spit lead with the best, and still remain highly plausible...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 6/20/1950 | See Source »

...constantly meeting travelers who . . . are puzzled that Italians gossip in their churches, kiss behind a pillar, spit in the aisles . . . wheel a bicycle in one door and out another. These observers are equally shocked by the sight of unshaven friars with faces like pirates, begging nuns in the capital of Christendom, gaudy and grubby dolls, tinsel bambinos, baby Virgins and the like in lovely quattrocento churches cheek by jowl with exquisite sculpture; and when I say that I find these bambinos both horrible and funny, even this will probably shock; as if religion were not sometimes so funny that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Beauty & the Beast | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

...spit on Russia," Kerensky quoted Lenin as having said. The Communist aim is to "build the base of an international proletarian revolution," and in so doing, "we must sacrifice all national interest," the quote concluded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kerensky Attacks Overall Condemnation of Russians | 4/22/1950 | See Source »

Hoping against hope that out of one of themWill come the reason for it all; and alwaysOut pops the arid chuckle and centuriesOf cuckoo-spit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot and Fry: Modern Verse Drama | 3/21/1950 | See Source »

...choose between George Brent and a career. She gets the chance to have a miscarriage, sweat out intermittent attacks of malaria, crawl on her back under a barbed-wire fence, gasp and stagger through the jungle, fight off a would-be assaulter, get beaten, slapped, and spit upon. Miss Colbert does all these things convincingly and manages as well to brig charm and warmth to the scenes with her husband and little...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 3/21/1950 | See Source »

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