Word: versions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...citizens. In 1694, only three years after Fox's death, the Friends who edited and published the Journal of his life's work were busily snipping out some of the angrier and more polemic passages, for fear they might offend some one. Their abridgment became the standard version...
...thousand years ago, some earlier Moslem version of a Naguib and a Shishekly might have responded by rattling their damascene blades, leaping to Arab steeds and smiting the infidel to the cry of Allah il Allah! But now they rattled only their tongues. At a state dinner in his honor, eminent visitor Shishekly said: "We are prepared to strike back if necessary." Naguib echoed: "Ten blows for each "one in attack against...
Like William Inge's 1950 play, which Daniel Mann (who also directed the stage version) has carefully and faithfully transferred to the screen, the picture skirts the chaotic core of its subject, substituting pity for penetration, sympathy for real insight. The film also blunts some of the drama's edges (e.g., the seduction of the college student) because of the requirements of screen censorship. But the movie remains a generally honest and affecting examination of a marriage dying piecemeal from a sort of emotional anemia. The picture is at its best when it owes least to the stage...
...Come Back, Little Sheba (Hal Wallis; Paramount), a film version of the 1950 Broadway hit play (TIME, Feb. 27, 1950) about a reformed drunk and his sluttish wife, starring Shirley Booth, who appears to be a cinch for a best-actress nomination (see below...
...point, the stories almost fit. The bandit has stalked the samurai and his wife through the forest, decoyed him with a promise of buried loot, trussed him up and raped his wife before his eyes. But when it comes to the samurai's death, each tells a different version. The bandit insists that the wife egged him into killing her husband by promising herself to the victor. The wife insists that she killed her husband to spare him the shame of her dishonor, and tried to kill herself but lost her nerve. The samurai's story is that...