Word: tartness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spite of suddenly reverent expressions at mention of the word "Stalin," the skilled actors in this picture make the generals look like nice, fallible human beings. U.S. audiences will be particularly interested in ' the film's frequent tart, cynically distrustful references to a second front not yet launched by Russia's Western allies...
...wander aimlessly through slick-haired juvenile roles before his 41-month hitch in the Coast Guard, actually does some acting as the dipsomaniac doctor-turned-renegade. Linda Darnell (a brunette for the last time before dyeing her hair honey-blonde to play Amber) is the lushly pretty dance-hall tart...
...gold cloth and pastel pasteboard, contains no people, at least not the kind that inhabit the world. Rather does this craftsman of the sex comedy take into his delicate hands again the familiar set of dolls and sends them whirling on the polished floor, kidding, insulting, wallowing in the tart and tasty intoxication of flip sophisms and casual sex play. The effect in startlingly funny...
...Yugoslavia, which was ready to let the plane-shooting incident be lost in diplomacy's shuffle, went a tart note from Acting Secretary of State Dean Acheson, demanding indemnity payments for the five flyers killed and the two planes lost...
...From the Communist-dominated Polish Government, which had chewed over the U.S. demand that Poland hold a free election, came a tart reply: stay out of Poland's internal affairs. But the Poles knew that, however angrily they might react to U.S. demands for democratic government, the U.S. would keep on insisting on them-even though the fight might be lost...