Word: unkindest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Unkindest Cuts. Olivier and Dent are neither vandals, boobs nor megalomaniacs. They knew what they were doing. They felt, mostly with very good reason, that they had to do it. Mostly as a result of cutting, their Hamlet loses much of the depth and complexity which it might have had. Hamlet is a sublime tragedy, but it is also the most delightful and dangerous of tragicomedies. Some of the tragicomedy remains and is the best thing in the film. But some of the best went out with Rosencrantz & Guildenstern...
...press with an eight-column, Page One chortler: TORONTO THE GOOD 'MOST WIDE OPEN CITY.' The Ottawa Journal clucked like a mother hen: "Toronto is [just] growing up ... taking on the airs and smells and sounds of a big city. We think it will survive." The unkindest smirk of all lit up the Montreal Herald: "We are presently beaver-busy with uplift and the dusting off of our own morals. Sights high, eyes on the target, we are out to blast the canard that Montreal was ever a sinful city. . . . 'Toronto the Good' forsooth. Move over...
...Hedy Lamarr suffered the unkindest cluck of all, from a corner of the foundation-garment industry. A sharp-eyed stylist rose to report: her waist is too thick. Also, said this foundation-garment expert: Ingrid Bergman tends toward hippiness, and Katharine Hepburn hasn't enough of what Carole Landis has too much...
...Unkindest Cut. One of the last chances for averting a strike disappeared last week when young Henry Ford, white hope of the union, turned out to be no comfort at all. U.A.W. leaders had counted heavily on a generous offer close to their own demand for a 30% increase. Instead Ford gave them their sharpest come-uppance...
...Unkindest Cuts. A little wearily, WPB announced the war shortages that the U.S. public-judging by its complaints-has found it hardest to bear: 1) window screens, 2) alarm clocks, 3) wash tubs...