Word: tartness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mother (Lili Darvas) broods about the murder of her partisan son by the Germans, but "instead of seeking revenge on the Germans, somewhat irrationally goes after the U.S. soldier who commanded her son's unit. In Justice (Sun. 10:30 p.m., NBC), a schoolteacher is framed by a tart and a fake cop, and pays blackmail until it is about time for the show to end. Then the schoolteacher rebels and the blackmailers get their comeuppance...
...instinct, is miscast as a man whose problem is the loss of his instincts, but his intensity and sincerity propel the action vigorously even where they confuse its motives. Ida Lupino, as always, is a capable trouper; Shelley Winters makes an amusing roundheel: and Jean Hagen gives her some tart competition. Perhaps best of all is Wendell Corey as the sort of operator who has long since opened his veins, let out all the poetry and filled up with Prestone for life's long winter...
Sportscar Enthusiasts. In Seoul, Brigadier General Carl F. Fritzsche issued a tart order to discourage the men in his command from using Army jeeps "to transport indigenous female personnel for recreational purposes...
...reliance on interpolated newsreels, its constant comic interruptions and its narrow escapes from the maudlin and the mawkish by a hasty retreat into the reality of backstage confusion are all old television tricks. On TV itself last week, they served smoothly to give Wilder's persuasive talk a tart, tongue-in-cheek sense of proportion...
...vices, mutes its excellences. This tendency, far more than Communist propaganda, is responsible for the repulsive picture of U.S. life in the minds of many Europeans and Asians. Still, the Europeans' image of Chicago is gangsterism; New York is a fat capitalist, Los Angeles is a Hollywood tart, and the land between the cities is drenched in the bitter lees of The Grapes of Wrath. This caricature is a fact which every American responsibly concerned with U.S. foreign relations must face. A fortnight ago the U.S. Ambassador to Italy, Clare Boothe Luce, had to face it in a concrete...