Word: usual
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...usual in the Naples marketplace. the slight dark-haired man who stopped by the parked car talked tough. "I hear you've been looking for me," he said as he reached into the car's open window and tweaked the chin of the chubby-cheeked girl inside. "Here...
...fans are welcome, but mostly as reading aides and accompanists for the songs. Artist Friedman deliberately draws Willie and his pals -Silly Sue, Moisevitch the Lion, Candy Cow, who gives striped peppermint milk -with a simplicity that his followers can copy. Willie's adventures are unsullied by the usual comic staples of crime, violence and disrespect to elders...
...novel, in fact, presents a startling parallel to The Red and the Black. Like Julien Sorel in Stendhal's masterpiece, Hero Joe Lampton (Laurence Harvey) is a handsome young parvenu of considerable practical intelligence. Rising 25, he sits at his desk in the town hall and dreams the usual "clerk's dream" of sports "cars, town houses, Riviera villas, linen sheets-and women who look right in them. "I'm going to have the lot," he announces grimly one day, and, like Sorel, he sets his cap for the daughter (Heather Sears) of one of the richest...
...negative factor. "It is true that senior officers have had experiences which must surely be beneficial to the church," said an Anglican official last week. "But, alas, they have only perhaps five,'ten, or at most 15 years of useful life to give." Instead of the usual three-or four-year course, the church educates them for parish service with an 18-month "pocket" course, minus the usual classical-language requirements...
Based on Meyer Levin's novel about the LeopoldLoeb case, Compulsion is a well-wrought film which manages to steer around the usual stereotyped situations of college rebellion, detective work, and courtroom emotion. Primarily responsible are Dean Stockwell and Bradford Stillman as the paranoid Judd Steiner and the schizoid Artie Straus, and Orson Welles, who carries the latter part of the film on his sizeable bulk while playing the defense attorney (Clarence Darrow was responsible for life imprisonment sentences rather than the gallows for his clients...