Word: wayward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...show series of half-hour programs based on the sadistic, satyric, free-lance detective created by Mickey ("I'm not an author, I'm a writer") Spillane. Soon to be shown by 122 stations, the series entangles Hammer with every evil from white slavery to the wayward son of a chambermaid. A onetime tailback for the College of the Pacific, Actor McGavin looks natural tossing heavies down flights of stairs and giving the leather to fallen enemies. But his performances as a whole are curiously uneven. In the first show he slurs his lines like a Bowery tough...
Callas' own performance had the familiar virtues and faults: warmth and purity in the lower and middle registers, edginess and wobble in the upper ones. But she infused the character of Violetta with ardency, hectic gaiety and a dampened passion that flickered through the role like a wayward fever. Her deathbed agonies had the quiet poignancy and the ring of truth that so often evade lesser artists. All in all, Callas gave the Met its most exciting Traviata in years, and demonstrated again that she has lost none of the turbulent appeal that can magnetize an audience...
...what happened to another character named Angelo. "Twenty to life," replies another character named Frankie. "He killed some poor slob run a candy store. They shoulda juiced him, but they give him twenty to life. Just a hood." The Professional, in short, is a classic example of the Heming-wayward conviction that small words must be used to denote big things...
...Wayward Bus (20th Century...
...sentence in the June 17 review of The Wayward Bus says "the salesman wins the blonde to wife by promising her a stove that plays Tenderly when the steak is done. And Jayne Mansfield looks dumb enough to believe him." Please tell your Cinema reviewer that I am blonde and a little dumb but I know that the 1957 Hotpoint range plays Tenderly when the roast is done. What's more, my husband has sold quite...