Word: tanses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shake Hands with the Devil (Pennebaker; United Artists) turns a heap of expensive ingredients-James Cagney, Don Murray, Michael Redgrave, Dame Sybil Thorndike, Dana Wynter, Glynis Johns-into an everyday Irish stew. Taken from a 1934 novel by Rearden Conner, the plot concerns a young American (Murray), a medical student...
O'Casey concerns himself with the dreaded Black-and-Tans (Were they ever anything but "dreaded" Black-and-Tans? Didn't even their mothers love them?). The dreaded Black-and-Tans busily rip the peace of Dublin, while in shivery cold-water attics, rust-thatched idealists plan a land where...
Lewis Gruber is a crack salesman whose single, all-consuming passion is tobacco. There is little else he can talk about, little else that interests him. When dining in Manhattan restaurants, he passes out Kents to neighboring tables. At poker and pinochle (he is an indifferent player), he shuffles out...
The next move was up to Premier Faure, who had promised a "solution" by Sept. 12. At week's end, he announced what he had in mind: once the old and new Sul tans had been replaced by a three-man regency council, a Moroccan government with control over...
They would form a third generation of fighters whose appeal to the romantics has often kept the serious from taking them seriously. During the "Troubles"-the insurrections against British rule in 1918-21-I.R.A. gunmen so skillfully harassed the Royal Irish Constabulary and the British "Black and Tans" that Britain...