Word: wowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wow Boy. Frankie, like Teammates Norm Standlee and Bruno Banducci, is an alumnus of Stanford's famed 1940 "wow boys," who went to the Rose Bowl and won. In those days, West Coasters brazenly mentioned him in the same breath with the great Sammy Baugh, prince of passers. But Frankie joined the Navy, got married, and didn't fool much with football until two years ago. Now he is firing his left-handed passes as accurately as the great right-handed Sammy. So far this season, Albert has completed 108 passes in 180 attempts, an average...
...whole idea of the picture seems to be that it will wow the fans to see Miss Garson in tights, floundering in the mud, playing at comedy. But it is no news that Greer Garson has good legs (vide Random Harvest), or that she is a skillful comedienne (vide Valley of Decision); nor is it particularly funny to see dignity, whether real or superimposed, mucked...
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...library. Harry and Betty seldom leave this pleasant place for parties, never for nightclubs. When they do go out it is usually to a ball game or the movies (preferably westerns) or the race track. Aside from the children (Vicki, 4, and Jessica, less than 1) and the poodles (Wow and Gaffus), the James's major hobby is horses. Both Betty and Harry own horses, but their ownership like their betting is an individual rather than a family enterprise...
...Good Old Days." The most inventive of current directors, Huston knows as much about visual storytelling as any living man. Yet he has no weakness for the visual wow. He can contrive unforgettable images such as Robinson's bestial lolling in the bathtub (easily the most efficacious tub shot in movie history) or his death under Bogart's bullets, as obstinate as the rearing snake he suggests. But such images are never merely "pictorial" or "effective." Huston's style, so transparent that it would be very hard to describe, is unimitative and inimitable. It stamps Huston...