Word: sweethearted
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...clouds piled in grey threat on threat and a blue darkness settled on the land. In the San Juan valley the darker greens seemed black and the lighter green of grass, a chilling wet blue. 'Sweetheart' came rolling heavily along the highway and the aluminum paint on her gleamed with the evil...
John Steinbeck's new novel moves like the bus, Sweetheart, through a day of heavy spring rains in the Salinas valley country of California. The setting, familiar to Steinbeck readers, comes out fresh and fragrant in Steinbeck's prose. A few of the characters are fragrant too, but his story, a sort of Grand Hotel in a bus, is cunning and cheap. The Book-of-the-Month Club, though making the book its March choice, has warned its readers: "Mr. Steinbeck . . . may write too freely for the taste of some readers, particularly parents who may have teen...
...deep woods that surround it. No reasons are given, beyond Farmer Robinson's obvious terror. Nath and the farmer's adopted child (Allene Roberts), thus forbidden, cannot resist trying to find out what it's all about. They are variously hindered by Nath's lush sweetheart (Julie London) and her sinister spare-time boy friend (Rory Calhoun). Their quest for the core of the farmer's terror results, first of all, in some effectively staged ghost fear: Nath's exploration of the dark, wind-lashed, screaming woods. As the youngsters keep exploring, they...
...into a hotel, Laraine began work on a new picture for RKO. Leo followed her to the set. Between takes, they played gin rummy or held hands. When she was called to the camera, the look between Laraine and Leo stretched like buttered taffy. "I'll be waiting, sweetheart," said Leo, somewhat in the manner of a wife seeing her husband off to jail...
...hour or so. During that time ex-Paratrooper Humphrey Bogart hustles all over Gulf City, from morgue to Catholic church to cabaret, in his efforts to learn who rubbed out his comrade-at-arms (William Prince), and why. He becomes interested, particularly, in his late pal's hoarse sweetheart (Lizabeth Scott), in a suave nightclub proprietor (Morris Carnovsky) and in Carnovsky's fat strong-arm boy (Marvin Miller), who likes to torture his victims to soft music...