Word: sullens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This indigestible lump of melodrama is leavened now & again by a stretch of slapstick which is equally unreal. The only real moments, in fact, are provided by Gloria Grahame, who proves once again, as she did by her performance as the sullen taxi dancer in Crossfire, that she can be one of Hollywood's most convincing chippies...
...Quiet One pictures the disappointments and fierce resentments of a young Negro boy (played by nonprofessional Donald Thompson) who has been abandoned by his parents and left to shift for himself with an unsympathetic grandmother. When his fears and confusion have made him into a sullen "incorrigible," he is sent to a school for boys and given psychiatric treatment...
Last week, in front of Jogjakarta's nameless hotel, the people no longer shouted friendly greetings; they had only glum, sullen stares for white men. Said a Dutch official: "Indonesians, like the Dutch, would rather live in a leaky sod hut of their own than in the finest foreign-built building. Will Indonesians have another building of their own? Now they are not sure. When they come to trust us to give them independence, as we promised, they will work with...
...parade halted. Leaders indignantly shouted back to their followers, "Les flics ne veulent pas qu'on passe!" (The cops won't let us pass.) The answer was a sullen rumble...
...spreading peacock's tail, weigh down the lids over her enormous snake-like eyes . . . She is cadaverously thin ... the most easily recognizable face I know and ... the most luscious . . . cheeks like huge acid pink peonies . . . eyelashes built out with hot liquid paint to look like burnt matches . . . Her sullen, discontented, rather evil rosebud of a mouth is painted the brightest scarlet . . . shiny as ... strawberry...