Word: thems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Adam's Rib (MGM) again presents Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy as the ideal U.S. Mr. & Mrs. of upper-middle income. This time, besides being wittily urbane, both are lawyers. The determined deadpan whimsicality of their relationship is indicated by the fact that he calls her Pinkie and she...
Tanaka Was Superb. Morison, another breed of sea dog entirely, is rapidly but thoroughly chewing on the bigger chunk (14 projected volumes) that he has bitten off. To judge from the first five, Morison's history may well be the permanent hull which future workmen will occasionally caulk but...
On an impulse, Silvestro buys a ticket to his mother's village in Sicily. When he gets there, his mother is roasting a fish and the smell releases a lot of memories: how his mother's face had once been "young and awe-inspiring"; how, in poverty, they...
Of late years Cartoonist Arno, never timid in his technique, has broadened his brush stroke and simplified his situations ("I hate messing around with complicated backgrounds"). Some up-&-coming Arno types: the chinless, chestless little husband, and the ferocious, terrapin-eyed old girl of 50 who admires ballplayers ("We do...
Dr. Diamond and his colleagues had long wondered why so many mixed-blood babies are ever born alive. "Theoretically, most of them should have been destroyed in the uterus, but this rarely happened. There must be something in the mother's blood," he reasoned, "which protected her baby until...