Word: woman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Horrors of the Black Museum is in full swing. And from all the prop rooms of all the studios comes the full stock of exotic murder weapons. First a beautiful young woman with blue eyes and decolletage receives a pair of binoculars as an anonymous gift. Her roommate (brown eyes and decolletage) reports the murder promptly...
...Moines, Khrushchev ate his first hot dog with the excitement and exuberance of a kid at his first ball game. ("Well, capitalist," he boomed to Official Escort Henry Cabot Lodge, whom he needled throughout his trip, "have you finished your sausage?") He patted the cheek of a Lithuanian woman who came to plead for the freedom of her two children behind the Iron Curtain, promised to arrange a reunion. He played a cheerful role in a Marx Brothers farce in an Iowa cornfield. He joshed Democrat Adlai Stevenson for talking to him: "Do you think you will be investigated...
...Miracle Worker tells in remarkably unmawkish fashion the story of the childhood of Helen Keller. Miss Keller, left blind and deaf in infancy by a near-fatal illness, is deservedly one of the marvels of our age, a woman who despite her handicaps has "seen" and done more than many dream of. The "miracle worker" who awakened young Helen Keller to the world around her, who taught her to "talk," to "see," and to "hear" was Annie Sullivan, a Boston Irish girl, once blind herself...
Julie Harris, as a lonely and homely woman seeking a husband in America's sunshine capital, is immensely appealing in the central role. But the play itself is a travesty, a trite rehash of travel-folder propaganda and True Love Confessions, with a heavy touch of Pamela. The problems the play poses and agonizes could be solved with a quick letter to Dear Abby...
...with incredible rapidity when Alison leaves him, and considerately vacates his bed when Alison comes home, Claire Bloom seems understandably tentative in a role that Mr. Osborne never finished conceiving. Garry Raymond is quietly admirable as Cliff, and Dame Edith Evans, in a brief appearance, makes an old Cockney woman thoroughly Dickensian and lovable, striking almost too simple and cheerful a note in a perplexed and perplexing film...