Word: wastrel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...skinny claws-but not for the playfully brandished rapier. Fencing verbally, the brothers sometimes neatly pink each other, even achieve an occasional moral louche. But they use buttoned foils on synthetic flesh. Nor, in place of human drama, is there any real psychological probing or moral insight. The wastrel's behavior, at the end, for example, has no ironic force and is wholly out of character -words are his forte, not gestures...
...Argentina's Juan Domingo Peron, 62, having seized power in a 1943 military coup and put a stranglehold on the country that lasted until his wastrel ways brought economic distress and the opposition of the Roman Catholic Church, was dumped in a military uprising in September 1955, fled to Paraguay, then to Venezuela...
Having perfomed so well as the wastrel Prince, Gervasi showed remarkable change-of-pace in the ensuing excerpt, the abdication scene from Richard II. Richard so completely dominates this section that its success rests solely on the ability of the actor portraying him. Gervasi met all the requirements...
...Argentines love soccer, bathtubs, the opera and gastronomy (even for a pretty senorita their customary compliment is: "What a pudding!"). They will not stand for traffic lights, and their stately capital has none. For a flamboyant decade the proud and cultured Argentines were ruled by a wastrel dictator. Now the bill has been presented, and a grim-lipped general who prizes honor and uprightness is struggling to repay the account. See HEMISPHERE, The Rocky Road Back...
...woozily inaccurate way the film is a biography of Barney Ross (Cameron Mitchell), onetime lightweight (1933) and welterweight (1934-38) boxing champion of the world.* The story starts with Barney's famous victory over Jimmy McLarnin, describes his wastrel ways as champion, and soon comes to his downfall under the whirling assault of the human pinwheel, Henry Armstrong. In the next few years, as the film tells the story, Barney gambles away his restaurant business and (for the time being) the affection of his best girl (Dianne Foster), winds up in the Marines during World...