Word: verna
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Oates will also continue to act in carefully chosen roles. "On the surface he's a scruffy, funky, Okie guy, but he has a quiet thing going underneath that makes him extraordinary as an actor," says Verna Bloom, who played opposite him as the wife in The Hired Hand. Without boasting, Oates acknowledges a mature quality in his own work. "I don't get fan letters from little girls," he says, "but I do get them from doctors, lawyers, writers and professors. You see," he explains thoughtfully, "I try to give whatever I play a morality...
...understood is why. Some have speculated that the noise is caused by the snapping of bone against bone, or by the movement of tendons over bony projections within the joint. A trio of British researchers has now solved this minor medical mystery. According to Anthony Unsworth, Duncan Dowson and Verna Wright of the University of Leeds, knuckle noise results from the explosion of gas bubbles in the synovial fluid that fills the joint...
...Mexico country. Three drifters-Collings (Fonda), Harris (Warren Gates) and Dan (Robert Pratt)-drift into it. Dan is gunned down by a mean, sneaky killer named McVey (Severn Darden). Collings and Harris push on to the farm of the wife Collings had deserted six years before. The wife, Hannah (Verna Bloom), takes on the pair as hired hands...
...plenty of unpregnant pauses, and Fonda delivers it that way. He possesses the bruised canine look of his father with its perpetual hint of being over-loyal and underloved. Gates is good at suggesting a beat-up, used-up man who has not turned bitter. The untainted honesty of Verna Bloom's performance gives it the effect of beauty. She has an authentic frontier woman's face, planed by the seasons and by loneliness At one point, she says, "I'm all aching and sore from these last six years " After only 90 minutes spent...
...Verna Corinne Johnson - currently administrative assistant to Dean Dunlop, who has served in that capacity for seven deans or acting deans of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences - received the degree of Master of Arts...