Word: teethe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Miss Hellman's play is the kind a stage cast can really sink its teeth in; and it has been screened with a Broadway kind of incisiveness. It isn't in any pure sense a movie; but under Michael Gordon's direction it is a nearly perfect example of how to film a play. There is hardly a shot which does not set up visual tension against the lashing, steel-spring dialogue; there is not a single performance which is short of adequate; the work of Miss Eldridge, Mr. O'Brien and Betsey Blair...
Many of them concern shady ladies and double meanings. All are delivered in a scrape-fiddle soprano, with a prodigality of gesture and squirrel teeth. Perhaps Elsa's audiences like best the one about a wealthy, overstuffed New England heiress who builds a gazebo (latticed bower) in which to trap a mate. She coyly invites...
...Terrible Centennial." When television came, Sadie was ready. She has already appeared on five or six telecasts. Last week she became a regular M.C.'s assistant on Du Mont's School Day?,. "With her front teeth and television," says Comedian Happy Felton...
...weeks ago, Big Jim rattled the teeth of the conservative Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association with a suggestion that industry ought to cut prices (TIME, March 8). Then he served blunt notice on the Old Guard that he would swing as much of the state's 73-man convention delegation as he could behind a progressive Republican presidential candidate...
...himself in heedless stretches, recognizing no interruption or answer." Hitler thought he had sealed a pact; Feis shows that Franco had come to "seal a vacuum." A few days later Hitler told Mussolini that "rather than have the conversation over again, he would prefer to have three or four teeth pulled out." Franco soon decided that Spain should stay out of the war and get what it could from both sides. But neither the U.S. nor Britain knew this...