Word: toms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cain and Abel" theme of Steinbeck's novel does not become vivid until the very end of the movie. Rather the story suggests Tom Jones or Huckleberry Finn.Caleb Trask, (Jimmy Dean) is really a good guy at heart, but there is no one around to tell him he is "no good" because his father has rejected him. His pranks are worthy of a Tom Sawyer--but the complication lies in the fact that his brother Aaron is not a prig or toady, but a good guy too. To further complicate the situation, Alma (Julie Harris), the "Becky Sharp...
...Colombian Senate convicted Rojas of "overstepping his authority" and of "using the office of President to increase, in an unlawful form, his assets and those of others." It was the first time a Colombian ex-President faced the music since 1867, when General Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera was convicted of setting up a monopoly on the sale of salt...
...that sold more than 25 million copies, started the mass exploitation of the Wister formula that soon turned the western story into a beltline business. Only since World War II have the cliches been rescued by a serious set of younger writers-A. B. Guthrie Jr. (The Way West), Tom Lea (The Wonderful Country), Dorothy Johnson (The Hanging Tree...
...masked bandit. Hard on Broncho Billy's tracks came William S. Hart, a Minnesota farm boy who grew up among Indians. He rode a beautiful paint horse named Fritz, and when they stood side by side, it was hard to tell them apart. After Hart came Tom Mix, "the fearless man of the plains," who looked like a mail-order cowboy but was a genuine rough-string rider...
...real life," Tom Lehrer is a fairly tall, modest man who looks about twenty-five, and is mild-mannered enough to bring home to Mother. His apartment on Sparks St. is not arty, just a little crowded. Books and records are stacked around the room and on the mantelpiece stands bric-a-brac suggestive of his work: a rubber "dead hand" (I Hold Your Hand in Mine), a skeleton, a model of the "World Tree" in which he has stuck a dustmop, and a flowery piece of crockery labeled "Opium" (The Old Dope Peddler). He has a much pleasanter voice...