Word: upping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The screenplay leaves nothing behind in its tour through the junkyard of old sports movies. When Rooney starts working in Thomas Mitchell's garage, that pulp-story fixture, the star driver with the mean streak, turns up every few minutes to trade bogus-looking punches with him. Some good...
¶ "At a dinner party . . . Franklin turned to Madame Chiang and asked, 'What would you do in China with a labor leader like John Lewis?' She never said a word, but the beautiful, small hand came up very quietly and slid across her throat." ¶ At one of...
Otherwise they met at meals, usually with several guests present, or at receptions, with several hundred. Life for the President became so crowded that his sons soon gave up going to their father for advice; he seldom had time to talk with them at any length.
No Business Sense. Moravia dwells on only five years of Adriana's life in mid-'30s Rome. Already luscious at 16, she lived in a depressing slum with her widowed, seamstress mother. Mama had no intention of letting her daughter get tied up with hard work or tied...
No Clear Changes. Of Adriana's many men, three were especially destined to complicate her existence: a police official who loved her, a neurotic student whom she loved sincerely, and a murderer who got her pregnant. In a final blaze of violence all of them were wiped out of...