Word: trickyness
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Affair (the title is characteristically tricky) is-on the face of it-the story of an adulterous affair. The story succeeds in showing the fear and agony and hatred of a love affair. It fails when the author reports a miracle, and cannot prove it.
For any coach who wants to scout without travelling for hundreds of miles, the big telecasts are just fine. In the limited scope of a television camera, line play is much easier to watch. On the other hand, the lack of contrast in the blacks and whites on the screen...
The chief brain washer of Red China is Ai Szu-chi, director of the all-important Federation of Democratic Youth. More heard than seen, Ai gives long-winded, ponderous lectures over Radio Peking. A native of Yunnan and a comrade of long standing, he edits a turgidly written monthly called...
He was cast as the Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz. The job took six months and almost put him in the hospital. The banks of arc lights used for color film created murderous heat and he worked clad in long underwear, football shoulder pads and lion skin. It...
Strangers on a Train. Alfred Hitchcock's implausible but dazzlingly tricky thriller about a psychopath (Robert Walker) with a new scheme for foolproof murder (TIME, July 16).