The problem with this shopworn response is that it's aggressively patronizing.
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The concept had become shopworn from use as a marketing tool.
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It's a wonderful character, but it's a little shopworn at this point.
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Haley's freshness on the world scene may also be turning a bit shopworn.
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He's probably not going to do it when he's a shopworn 35-year-old.
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Still, certain earthy women find M's shopworn bull-likeness in no way off-putting.
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The clip looks shopworn and corny, but it does earn points for truth in advertising.
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His policies veer from shopworn banalities (lifelong learning) to flights of fancy (regionally set interest rates).
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As the most universal -- and the most shopworn -- of subjects, love has been inspiring songwriters for centuries.
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The first-round knockout marks Ellenberger's first win since an early 2015 defeat of a shopworn Josh Koscheck.
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A good number of the story elements here are shopworn, although a twist at the finale is salutary.
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And a shopworn new wave dance hit floods a dull world with the radiance of a neon rainbow.
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I can remember short words—most of the shopworn workhorses come easy—and a bunch of longer ones too.
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To me, the trend has peaked to such an extent that it's almost becoming a little shopworn as a joke.
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A 47-year-old man, Deng Xinling, says that men are now considered shopworn if they are unmarried at 203.
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Paul Felder is the perfect company man: a less shopworn version of his friend and the UFC's golden boy, Donald Cerrone.
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Yet "Crush" also has an emotional authenticity lacking in Ms. Ursuta's other works, in which feelings are crushed by shopworn concepts.
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Nancy Pelosi, Democratic House leader, styles herself a "master legislator," but she is generally regarded as incompetent, tedious, and politically shopworn.
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Pop (Frankie Faison), the benevolent owner of a Harlem barbershop, may initially seem like a shopworn trope, but that's hardly the case.
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He employed shopworn tropes, racist and homophobic language, age-old myths about Chinese food, and ignorant attitudes about Chinatown and Asian Americans.
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And in the context of that void — and of Rubio's imitation of a typical Trump answer — his most shopworn, banal phrases stood out.
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But Flynn still imbues Dylan with a unique charm and keeps him from falling into the shopworn and ultimately forgettable "nice guy" territory.
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The show had become a shopworn imitation of the inspired original deep dive into the issues, and viewers had abandoned it in droves.
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Some of them have leaned extra hard lately on one of their more shopworn banalities: how theirs is the city that never sleeps.
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By contrast, we get a long scene of our protagonist on an airplane, complete with shopworn descriptions of overhead bins and snack carts.
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That virtues as shopworn as faith, hope and love can abide, even if others think you're a crazy person for believing in them.
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The promise of future shock, triggered by meaningful red lines, could represent more effective diplomacy than the maintenance of shopworn sanctions now in place.
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SHARE A POSITIVE MEMORY Instead of falling back on a shopworn phrase, savvy condolers often share a warm or uplifting memory of the deceased.
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Though the premise is shopworn — the father of a daughter suddenly realizes what women face from men — he's forced to reckon with his own behavior.
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The start-up became a unicorn — that now-shopworn term for private start-ups valued at $1 billion or more — during its last financing round.
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A dad freaking out about his daughter's first date is a trope so shopworn it was old when your grandparents were freaking out about your parents.
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More worrisome is the possibility that they may want it to buttress their shopworn argument that U.S. troops are no longer needed on the Korean peninsula.
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While she still takes her final breath in his arms, her death doesn't feel like a shopworn trope primarily used to make a man feel things.
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And Republicans will try to graft all of the shopworn racial and cultural anxieties that have driven their politics onto Sanders as best as they can.
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Relationships unfold with a bright, glossy and antiseptic sentimentality in Park Hyun-gene's "Like for Likes," which brings abundant social media usage to shopworn rom-com contrivances.
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But as we've often noted, an overreliance on anecdotal openings — especially the classic "stranger in the lead" approach — can make our prose feel shopworn rather than vivid.
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Sean Illing: This is one of those shopworn interview questions, but I'm asking it anyway — tell me something that's true that few people agree with you on.
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"There but for the grace of God go I" may be the world's most shopworn phrase, but it's one you feel keenly after an event like this.
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Dodging and weaving, we reached Le Perchoir, a louchely exotic rooftop bar in the rapidly gentrifying 11th arrondissement that is strewn with shopworn kilims and fatigued palms.
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The novel makes too much use of shopworn archetypes—a seductive housekeeper, a self-sacrificing prostitute—but Altan deftly pushes the tropes of detective fiction into existentialist territory.
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Moscone's relentless rhetoric about neighborhoods might now seem like shopworn platitudes, but they were genuinely new and important when he was saying and doing those things in 1975.
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An exhilarating fusion of high and low, the movie takes a shopworn premise — townsfolk facing a violent threat — and bats it around until it all goes ka-boom.
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I'll add some trigger warnings of my own: blunt exposition, familiar meditations on privacy and the corrosive nature of social media, the now shopworn employment of neon lighting.
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There is true depletion in the ranks at 205 pounds: with Johnson's retirement, a shopworn Mauricio "Shogun" Rua is now the fourth-ranked light heavyweight in the promotion.
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A description of "Becks," about a lesbian musician who returns to the more conservative environment in which she grew up, makes it sound like an earnest, shopworn indie drama.
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The separation of art and artist is proclaimed—rather desperately, it seems to me—as if it were a philosophical principle, rather than a cultural habit buttressed by shopworn academic dogma.
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The separation of art and artist is proclaimed — rather desperately, it seems to me — as if it were a philosophical principle, rather than a cultural habit buttressed by shopworn academic dogma.
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Last summer, a good option arose near Gramercy Park, where Ms. Sun bid on a shopworn one-bedroom with a dining area, plenty of closet space and a mostly eastern view.
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If the setup is shopworn — redolent of the category's king, "The Shining," and any number of lesser fright pieces — by the end Kehlmann takes it to provocative and open-ended places.
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Married or single, working or not, and most often grandmothers, they are asserting their presence on Instagram, intent, in the process, on subverting shopworn notions of what "old" looks and feels like.
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Cars could easily have been the stars of "Lowriders," but the film makes them supporting players in a family drama that's a mix of strong scenes and shopworn ones punctuated by clichés.
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"I'm not going to fit neatly into anybody's little red or little blue box," he said at one point, repeating a shopworn line he had offered in his earlier interview with BuzzFeed News.
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Because Loomis Todd is played by Kathleen Chalfant, an actress of rigor and effulgence, the play also provides a master class in how to take a shopworn form and make it nearly new.
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But for all the shopworn stereotypes and the repulsive social media postings, the scale of anti-Semitism inside the Labour Party is insufficient to warrant the kind of reaction we have seen recently.
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But not if they insist on spreading their message via the same shopworn East and West Coast spokespeople who simply fail to connect with voters in flyover country — those who elected Mr. Trump.
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That's because Europe's vast center is presenting for office the same, shopworn re-treads of candidates and platforms that they've been trotting out since I first covered Jean-Marie Le Pen in the 1980s.
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If so, it's because he has given younger painters a way out of their own race with art criticism, academic theory, shopworn irony, heartless formalism, and mannered diffidence as if painting had no future.
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The problem is that daddies — consider those stern yet kindly men who smoke pipes and deliver shopworn aphorisms in in deep and manly voices — may have good intentions but don't necessarily know best at all.
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In 2016, we have a much better understanding of why this depiction of Asia is shopworn and clichéd, especially given that some Asian countries are just as technologically advanced as the US (if not more).
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Perhaps the single biggest criticism about 2015's Ant-Man was that it fell into the shopworn trope of pairing a semi-competent and flawed male protagonist with a more talented and capable woman sidekick.
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And they sometimes feel a bit cloying, honestly, because they employ such shopworn clichés as the city girl who learns more about life from visiting the country (and from the young man she meets there).
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Bounded by a shopworn Persian rug on a low platform, the piece features seven mid-sized figures arranged around a kind of joker king (inspired by Trump, according to the artist), joined by two cronies.
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Far less than the sum of its parts, this haphazard show is best taken as an opportunity to reconsider Moreau's close kinship with literary models and his convoluted relevance to the shopworn concept of "modernity" itself.
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Even amid all this talent and all this life, the film is guiltlessly focused on its least interesting element: the shopworn tale of one Bobby Dorfman (Jesse Eisenberg) and his older uncle Phil Stern (Steve Carell).
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She also pointed out how many male GOP members have trotted out the shopworn strategy of invoking their female family members ("As a father/husband/brother/son...") to qualify their disagreement with Trump's sexual assault brags.
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In April, the emerging conventional wisdom was that Warren faced a still formidable Bernie Sanders on her left flank, and she seemed a bit shopworn compared to flashy new figures like Kamala Harris and Pete Buttigieg.
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Yet when, elsewhere in the book, he himself says that "the right words are oxygen" and that ugly phrases are "passed on like a virus," we do not begrudge him these shopworn but convenient figures of speech.
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Although Vogue House is shopworn on the whole, with old elevators and an in-house canteen employees call "the Hatch," the World of Interiors office has a different degree of make-do, in keeping with its history.
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And that is why, ten months after her test was dropped, it feels frustrating that the media and political commentators continually fail to cut through the shopworn "wisdom" and call the situation for what it is: a mess.
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The brewpub itself adheres to the plywood-on-a-pole aesthetic; ivory-colored and unassuming, it could be mistaken for a package-liquor store on the West Texas plains, with a gravelly, tin-roof courtyard punctuating the shopworn vibe.
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There's a cold snarl to Strange's voice — a testament to Cumberbatch's performance, because it comes through even when he's delivering shopworn lines like "This is the part when you leave," to the love of his life, Christine Palmer (McAdams).
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Repurposing the shopworn and discarded, her sprawling exhibition, tilt, at Hauser & Wirth, was filled with forms that were ugly, crude, and savage, but executed with such a wealth of wisdom and experience that their raw grandeur left us with something to cling to.
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The invaluable Jim Broadbent showed up at year's end after a decade away from the London stage in a West End production of "A Christmas Carol," his Scrooge moving from asperity to humility in a way that mined genuine feeling from a possibly shopworn title.
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If it is on purpose, and Daredevil does want to make the point that its hyper-lawless world is especially punishing for women in power, it might be accidentally bolstering some shopworn stereotypes, the kind that aren't very far removed from the women in refrigerators.
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Instead of any hint of apology, King scurried to hide behind the shopworn excuse of media bias as a defense; this week, rather than finding some path toward expiation, he was touting the support of religious leaders as reason to have his committee assignments reinstated.
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Of course, Donald Trump's election has cast doubt on the shopworn idea that the "party decides," but these endorsement decisions—or lack of them—provide an intriguing measure of how political insiders regard their self-interest—and the odds of aligning with a winner.
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Just like Wonder Woman was built around Gal Gadot's buoyant, bright spirit, Aquaman hinges on Momoa's natural swarthy charisma and charm, and Wan's willingness to let those things shine makes the movie enjoyable in spite of its rote music cues and some shopworn lines.
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Now, you might choose to rationalize the possible booking of this rematch by noting that, if the shopworn, 2016 versions of Cro Cop and Fedor are too stubborn to retire, it's better they fight each other than some mortar-fisted heavyweights 15 years fresher than they are.
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I spent a lot of Out of the Shadows' inappropriately lengthy running time (just shy of two hours) mulling what kind of circumstances brought Linney to the point of playing a shopworn New York police chief who exists primarily to be a pain the ass to the film's heroes.
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Cross this genre — epitomized by W. Somerset Maugham's 1944 novel, "The Razor's Edge" — with the equally shopworn story of the American in search of his ethnic identity and you get a man of Pakistani and Indian heritage who (re)turns to India to find his roots (and/or soul).
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After decades of harnessing his wealth and power to silence women — and after weathering an earlier criminal inquiry into groping allegations — his reign as a film-industry titan suffered a decisive blow in, of all places, the shopworn arraignment courtroom, where he was among the morning cattle call of defendants.
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It's no spoiler to say there will be infidelity, which has become a reflexive choice for contemporary authors who write about marriage; it is doubly a shame because despite the shopworn plot element, if the characters had felt real, the combination of faithlessness and mortal illness could have had thrilling moral implications.
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Mr. Garfield, perhaps best known as one of the many Spider-Men to have crawled across multiplex screens, is splendid in the central role of the ailing Prior Walter, who is abandoned by his lover and visited by a bona fide, if shopworn, angel, bearing tidings she wants him to spread worldwide.
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The fall TV season kicks off in earnest this week, and looking at it from the vantage of Netflix bingeing and Instagram Stories and moving GIFs and Twitter feuds, the fanfare around the latest sitcom to hit the airwaves feels shopworn, like staging a neighborhood singalong down the street from a Chance the Rapper show.
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After storming a French village, he merely says he's been coddling them, and now they have to really prove themselves… by going on a shopworn commando mission with British special forces that culminates in one of the game's few genuinely impressive set-pieces: a preposterous but undeniably breathtaking night-time street battle in Paris.
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Parts of it are still staggeringly clunky — a dinner party early in the season comes to mind — and the Meachums (Tom Pelphrey and Jessica Stroup), the villainous stalwarts from the first season, are as dull as ever, reprising their roles as shopworn white-collar criminals who don't know what it's like to feel love.
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By the time Mindhunter gets to its very first scene in which Ford and Tench interrogate a suspected murderer who has yet to confess to his crime (in the season finale!) it's taken one of the most shopworn scenes in TV — two cops try to get a confession — and returned it to what made it compelling in the first place.
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Both these standout efforts demonstrate a future for this often shopworn subgenre, because — just like the Robert B. Parkers and the James Crumleys of the early 21940s, and the Sue Graftons and the Sara Paretskys of the early 250s — the detective novel fills the gap of political unrest and upheaval, seeking order but understanding it may not be there to find.
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While Disney has earned tens of billions of dollars by delighting the world with spirited Marvel and Star Wars sequels on how the fate of the universe hangs on the shoulders of its resolute heroes, the Kim dynasty has earned tens of billions of dollars by frightening the world with shopworn sequels on how world peace hangs on the shoulders of its wobbly statesmen.
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Certainly that was true in 210, when as a young editorial assistant at Doubleday in Paris she rescued the diary of Anne Frank from a pile of rejects and persuaded her superiors to publish it in the United States — a stroke of fortune that gave the English-speaking world the intimate portrait of a forgotten girl, the child everyone had lost in World War II. And Ms. Jones was again in the right place at the right time a decade later when a shopworn 800-page manuscript by three unknown women with no literary credentials landed on her desk at the Alfred A. Knopf publishing house in New York.
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University of Alberta Alumni Association, Autumn 2001. he was best known for his humor novel Gophers Don't Pay Taxes, which won the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour in 1982."Leacock winner plays a shopworn theme". The Globe and Mail, May 13, 1982.
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New York City: Remick Music Corp. This song was chosen out of 150 submissions by Paramount for the theme song of the Gary Cooper film A Shopworn Angel. It was recorded by George Olsen and his Orchestra, The Ipana Troubadours, and Annette Hanshaw.Tyler, Don.
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Melvyn Douglas originally was signed to play Sam Bailey, but the role ultimately went to Walter Pidgeon.The Shopworn Angel at Turner Classic Movies First-time screenwriter Salt had to adhere to the strict regulations of the Hays Code, which required him to dilute many of the sexually explicit elements of the preceding film versions of the story. This included transforming Daisy from a hard-edged chorus girl into a leading lady and Sam from her gangster lover into her wealthy, high society boyfriend. Although not deemed an official remake of The Shopworn Angel, the Paramount Pictures film That Kind of Woman (1959) shared a very similar plot.
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Art Levis for Electronic Fun with Computers & Games said "Here's a game that has great play value, doesn't involve the shopworn space or maze cliches, is graphically vivid and has great sound effects – yet only an eccentric handful of games players will ever know its joysticks".
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Doherty, pp. 341–342. Some pre-Code movies suffered irreparable damage from censorship after 1934. When studios attempted to re-issue films from the 1920s and early 1930s, they were forced to make extensive cuts. Films such as Mata Hari (1931), Arrowsmith (1931), Shopworn (1932), Dr. Monica (1934) and Horse Feathers (1932) exist only in their censored versions.
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There was a schedule conflict during the production, which forced director Richard Thorpe to withdraw from the direction of The Shopworn Angel (1938), a drama film starring Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart.Notes for The Toy Wife (1938) TCM.com There was a lack of a big budget. By casting Rainer, the studio couldn't afford a famous male lead and assigned Melvyn Douglas instead.
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The screenplay by Waldo Salt is the third feature film adaptation of a Dana Burnet short story, "Private Pettigrew's Girl", originally published in the Saturday Evening Post in 1918. The first version was Pettigrew's Girl, a silent film released in 1919, and the second was The Shopworn Angel (1928), a part-talkie released by Paramount Pictures starring Nancy Carroll, Gary Cooper, and Paul Lukas.
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The Los Angeles Times called it "a fast moving story whose elements maybe a little shopworn but which appeared new against the unusual background... picture proves that when the Australians get into their real stride as picture makers they will be second to none: for acting, production and photography are second to none." This version screened in New York the following year. The film is now in the public domain.
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Estelí, Nicaragua, 2006. Cinema in Nicaragua goes as way back as the end of the 19th century, when the first movie projection took place in January 1900 at the prestigious Teatro Castaño in Managua. The first movie theater, Salón de Cine San Jacinto, opened in 1909. The first sound film projected in Nicaragua, on June, 1930, at the Teatro Excélsior in León was The Shopworn Angel, starring Gary Cooper.
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He added a KO1 over shopworn 40-year-old veteran Jaffa Ballogou (46-7) to keep his title hopes at 175 lbs alive but a KO6 to fringe contender Chris Henry (23-2) in 2009 was a big setback for the now 30-year-old George. He is trained by Tommy Brooks, promoted by Lou DiBella and advised by Donna Brooks. His public relations are handled by Boxing Buzz Media.
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The Shopworn Angel is a 1938 American drama film directed by H. C. Potter and starring James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan, and Walter Pidgeon.Variety film review; July 13, 1938, page 15.Harrison's Reports film review; July 16, 1938, page 115. The MGM release featured the second screen pairing of Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart following their successful teaming in the Universal Pictures production Next Time We Love two years earlier.
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A review in Publishers Weekly of The Twelve Fingered Boy wrote "Jacobs skillfully builds tension and mystery throughout.", while Kirkus Reviews wrote "Against the plethora of mutant and superhuman narratives, this effort just feels shopworn.". The Twelve-Fingered Boy has also been reviewed by Booklist, School Library Journal, Horn Book Guides Library Media Connection, and Common Sense Media. It won a 2013 Moonbeam Children's Book Award gold medal.
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Since Wake's initial debut, it has generally received positive response from many critics. Publisher's Weekly states, "The trick to getting hooked on this highly satisfying first novel is to look past its disjointed opening….The plot twists keep coming, even if one or two are shopworn, and the writing has a Caroline Cooney-like snap that's hard to resist."Publishers Weekly, review of Wake, March 31, 2008, p. 63.
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Underclassman received universal negative reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, only 6% of the critics gave it positive write-ups with the consensus: "Despite the appealing presence of Nick Cannon, Underclassman is a shopworn knockoff of both Beverly Hills Cop and 21 Jump Street." On Metacritic the film has received 20 poor and 5 medium reviews for an overall score of 19. Underclassman is currently the sixth worst reviewed film on Metacritic released in 2005.
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The film was panned by critics. According to Rotten Tomatoes, only 5% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 114 reviews. The site's consensus states: "A shortage of laughs and an undercurrent of mean-spiritedness undermine Good Luck Chuck, squandering a decent premise on gross-out humor and shopworn slapstick." On Metacritic, the film had an average score of 19 out of 100, based on 23 reviews, indicating "overwhelming dislike".
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The website's critical consensus reads, "With stereotypical characters and a shopworn plot, My Life in Ruins is a charmless romantic comedy." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 34 out of 100, based on 25 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". Roger Ebert was unequivocal, in his review of June 3, 2009 : > Rarely has a film centered on a character so superficial and unconvincing, > [and] played with such unrelenting sameness.
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A musical, the film celebrates African-American music and dance. The film was directed by Paul Sloane, produced by William Fox, and had a screenplay written by Walter Weems. In the 1933 film Torch Singer, Washington acted as Carrie, who was the confidante and maid of the starring role played by Claudette Colbert. Other films featuring Washington include A Man of Sentiment (1933), The Shopworn Angel (1928), The Thoroughbred (1928), and In Old Kentucky (1927).
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AllMusic wrote that the 1972 film "contains some definitive [Liza] Minnelli performances, particularly her rendition of the title song". Reviews of the 2014 Broadway revival included: The Guardian described the song as "the hardest scene in the show, so shopworn as to have long ago collapsed into kitsch". Broadway World wrote Michelle Williams' "version of the title song has a wrenching, dead-eyed quality that hauntingly undercuts its light lyrics." It has been described as "stirring", "devastating", and "jaunty".
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That Kind of Woman is a 1959 American drama film directed by Sidney Lumet, who was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 9th Berlin International Film Festival. It stars Sophia Loren and Tab Hunter. The screenplay by Walter Bernstein, based on a short story by Robert Lowry ("Layover in El Paso"), is highly reminiscent of the 1938 film The Shopworn Angel. The Paramount Pictures release was filmed on location in New York City and Long Beach, New York.
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Forster-Hahn et al. 2001, p. 155 This had an immediate impact on many of the city's young artists, who found Courbet's approach an invigorating alternative to the shopworn academic tradition. Scuffling Boys (1872) In 1870 he made the acquaintance of Carl Schuch and Albert Lang. In August 1871, the three artists painted landscapes together during hikes in Hohenschwangau and Bernried, where they met Leibl. In 1872 Trübner met Hans Thoma, another German painter who greatly admired the unsentimental realism of Wilhelm Leibl.
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Robert Niemi, author of History in the Media: Film and Television, stated that Midway's "clichéd dialogue" and an overuse of stock footage led the film to have a "shopworn quality that signalled the end of the heroic era of American-made World War II epics." He described the film as a "final, anachronistic attempt to recapture World War II glories in a radically altered geopolitical era, when the old good-versus-evil dichotomies no longer made sense."Niemi, Robert. History in the Media: Film and Television.
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However, Rogers's success in a stage musical caused the film to be picked up again. Stewart was recast in Vivacious Lady at Rogers's insistence and due to his performance in Of Human Hearts. It was a critical and commercial success, and showed Stewart's talent for performing in romantic comedies; The New York Herald called him "one of the most knowing and engaging young actors appearing on the screen at present." Stewart's third film release of 1938, the First World War drama The Shopworn Angel, saw him collaborate again with Margaret Sullavan.
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Publishers Weekly said "the Old Dog's frequently recycled crew is becoming somewhat shopworn," but still called it a "blockbuster" and said it "demonstrates the exciting possibilities open to the techno-thriller in a post-Soviet world." Fiction review: "Night of the Hawk," Publishers Weekly, August 3, 1992. Retrieved August 30, 2011 Kirkus Reviews said the novel was "Longer than Desert Storm--but with much more satisfactory results.""Night of the Hawk," Kirkus Reviews, August 12, 1992. Retrieved August 30, 2011 It reached number 7 on the New York Times fiction bestseller list in September 1992.
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On Rotten Tomatoes, the film received an approval rating of 56% approval rating from 162 critics, with an average rating of 5.9/10. The site's consensus reads: "Despite strong performances from Bruce Willis and Mos Def, 16 Blocks barely rises above being a shopworn entry in the buddy-action genre." On Metacritic, it has a weighted average score of 63 out of 100, based on 34 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale.
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After defeating a shopworn Steve Cruz in three rounds in April 1992, he travelled to France and stopped Fabrice Benichou in the 10th round of a tough fight. At the time of the stoppage, one judge had the fight level, the other two had Hoko ahead. Perhaps the best performance of Hodkinson’s career was to stop Ricardo Cepeda in the fourth round (February 1993) for his third defence. Cepeda came with a good reputation, having failed on points to beat Villasana 18 months previously, a decision which was hotly disputed at the time.
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Ken W. Hanley of Fangoria rated it 2.5/4 stars and described its ambition as both its greatest asset and downfall. Simon Abrams of RogerEbert.com rated it 1.5/4 stars and wrote, "Digging Up the Marrow is a decent idea, but beyond some fun creature effects, and a surprisingly grounded performance from character actor Ray Wise, the film just sits there." Wes Greene of Slant Magazine rated it 2/4 stars and said that it "ultimately becomes the shopworn horror story that Green purports to upend with plenty of self-aware snark".
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Grano, originally from Connecticut, now trains and fights out of West Palm Beach FL. Weighing 220 pounds, Italian-American Tony "TNT" Grano made his debut in 2005 and has a record of 20-2-1 with 16 knockouts. In 2009, Grano scored a KO over previously undefeated (18-0) amateur star Travis Kauffman. The KO over Kauffman was Ringside Magazines 2009 heavyweight fight of the year. After stopping veteran Brian Minto in a NABF heavyweight title eliminator in the third round Grano KOd shopworn 43-year old former contender DaVarryl Williamson for the NABF heavyweight championship.
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Guy Lodge of Variety was also positive, noting camerawork by Vladimír Smutný. He called the film "muscular, savagely realized Jerzy Kosiński adaptation puts an unnamed Jewish boy through a challenging litany of Holocaust horrors." In a more negative review, A.A. Dowd of the A.V. Club praised the film's cinematography while criticizing its bleak tone, saying "The Painted Bird is, in the end, the kind of slog that treats shopworn insights about the brutality of man as justification for drowning us in the evidence." The Hollywood Reporter picked The Painted Bird as one of 20 best films projected at Film festivals during Fall 2019.
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The song appears in several films, including Varsity Show (1937 film) with Dick Powell Pack Up Your Troubles (1932) with Laurel & Hardy, High Pressure (1932), and The Shopworn Angel (1938). It is also featured in For Me and My Gal (1942) starring Judy Garland and Gene Kelly, and “On Moonlight Bay” with Gordon MacRae and Doris Day (1951). The song also featured briefly in the 1979 film All That Jazz, sung between Joe Gideon (Roy Scheider) and a hospital orderly. It was sung during a march in the 2010 film Private Peaceful, based on the book by Michael Morpurgo.
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Critical reception for Haters has been mostly positive, with Teenreads calling it a "charming, dishy chick lit with a side of supernatural".Teenreads: Haters Teenreads Booklist wrote that Haters was "shopworn" with "heavy contrivances", but that readers would be won over by the "hilarious, likable, resilient Paski".Booklist Review: Haters Booklist The School Library Journal stated that "Paski's first-person narrative is lively and honest".Haters School Library Journal Kirkus Reviews wrote that the book "has the potential to reach a wide audience, although its length will discourage many reluctant readers who might otherwise enjoy it".
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In the next story, which apparently takes place in the summer of 1959, a hostile agent from a rival American spy organization taunts Helm as a shopworn 36-year-old and clearly over the hill as a physical specimen. Later in the book, Helm himself says that he is 36 years old. Writer Hayford Peirce examined the issue of Helm's age, and found this figure to be improbably young given the information about Helm's background in Death of a Citizen. Peirce postulated that Helm was actually several years older than the 36 years mentioned in The Wrecking Crew and that he was probably born around 1918.
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Slate magazine's Katy Waldman found his first published short story "mediocre", writing that "Hanks' shopworn ideas about technology might have yet sung if they hadn't been wrapped in too-clever lit mag-ese". In an interview with The New Yorker, Hanks said he has always been fascinated by space. He told the magazine that he built plastic models of rockets when he was a child and watched live broadcasts of space missions back in the 1960s. In March 2015, Hanks appeared in the Carly Rae Jepsen music video for "I Really Like You", lip-syncing most of the song's lyrics as he goes through his daily routine.
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What a courageous first feature this is, a film that sidesteps shopworn stereotypes and tells a quiet, firm, deeply humanist story about doing the right thing".Roger Ebert review: In the Family Kevin Uhlich of Time Out New York awarded the film 5 out of 5 stars and wrote "No doubt you've noticed the nearly three-hour runtime, but please don't let that dissuade you: Every moment counts in this gripping tale".In the Family:review Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter called the film "deeply humanistic, profoundly touching work representing independent cinema at its finest". Paul Brunick of The New York Times said, "Mr.
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On most of his films as producer he would work uncredited on the script. Mankiewicz had a commercial and critical success with Fury (1936), the first American film directed by Fritz Lang. Mankiewicz produced a series of films starring Crawford: The Gorgeous Hussy (1936), Love on the Run (1936), The Bride Wore Red (1937), and Mannequin (1937). Mankewicz also produced Double Wedding (1937) with William Powell and Myrna Loy; Three Comrades (1938), with Margaret Sullavan and Robert Taylor and director Frank Borzage, famously rewriting F. Scott Fitzgerald; The Shopworn Angel (1938) with Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart; The Shining Hour (1938) with Sullavan and Crawford, directed by Borzage.
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The name "Jerry" was chosen by Geraint Rowlands, who submitted "Tom and Jerry" as potential names for the duo after an important Loews Inc. distributor in Texas asked for follow-ups to Puss Gets the Boot. While the idea of a cat-and- mouse duo was considered shopworn by the 1940s,Hanna and Barbera decided to expand upon the standard expected cat and mouse relationship. Instead of being a "cowering victim" of Tom, he took delight in besting, and even torturing, his feline frenemy (even if Tom is just following orders or is even just minding his own business and is antagonized by Jerry).
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It draws heavily on Balfe's opera The Bohemian Girl (1843) and uses various shopworn theatrical devices and conventions, including the gypsy background (featured in The Bohemian Girl as well), a romance across class and station, the desertion of the bride at her betrothal ceremony, and the antics of the comedian. These would have been very familiar to London audiences at the time. Furthermore, this romantic type of opera was out of place at the Savoy Theatre, which was the home of Gilbert and Sullivan and their unique kind of less sentimental comic opera."The Call Boy", Judy: or The London Serio-comic Journal, 18 July 1894, p.
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He also recovers unexploded missiles from the ocean and turns them over to the Russians. No also admits there is more to play than the shopworn East-West rivalry; his intent is to create enmity between the USSR and USA in an attempt to make the Cold War hot. This was further revealed in Ernst Stavro Blofeld's master plan using the "three fighting fish" as an analogy; when the Cold War ended, SPECTRE would then engage in sabotage and subversion against the victor, now weakened from the war. Bond does not actually learn of No's plot until he and Quarrel—with Honey Rider, who would trespass to find shells—had infiltrated Crab Key and been captured.
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She and Robeson sang "I Still Suits Me", written for the film by Kern and Hammerstein. After Show Boat, she had major roles in MGM's Saratoga (1937), starring Jean Harlow and Clark Gable; The Shopworn Angel (1938), with Margaret Sullavan; and The Mad Miss Manton (1938), starring Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda. She had a minor role in the Carole Lombard–Frederic March film Nothing Sacred (1937), in which she played the wife of a shoeshine man (Troy Brown) masquerading as a sultan. McDaniel was a friend of many of Hollywood's most popular stars, including Joan Crawford, Tallulah Bankhead, Bette Davis, Shirley Temple, Henry Fonda, Ronald Reagan, Olivia de Havilland, and Clark Gable.
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Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 56% of 188 critics have given the film a positive review, with a rating average of 5.9/10. The site's consensus says, "It doesn't quite follow through on its promise, and relies too heavily on shopworn romantic comedy tropes, but The Invention of Lying is uncommonly sly and funny." On Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from film critics, the film has a rating score of 58 based on 31 reviews, suggesting "mixed or average reviews". Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times awarded the film three and a half stars out of four saying "in its amiable, quiet, PG-13 way, [it] is a remarkably radical comedy".
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On March 22, 1997, Rivera was matched with the legendary but shopworn former WBA world Lightweight champion Livingstone Bramble at El Condado, San Juan. Rivera dominated this bout, scoring a third-round knockout win over his experienced foe, who had beaten International Boxing Hall of Fame member Ray Mancini twice and who sported a 38-19-2 record into this fight. On April 19, 1997, Rivera faced Alex Lubo, a 10-1 contender who hoped to upset Rivera and enter the Welterweight top 10 rankings himself. Rivera halted Lubo, winning by technical knockout to continue having a spot among the WBC's top ten Welterweight championship contenders, and followed that win with a knockout victory against 24-15 -2 journeyman Benjie Marquez on July 25, also at San Juan.
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In a contemporary review, the Monthly Film Bulletin noted that the film "tries to wring some more mileage out of the bizarre but shopworn Mexican device of casting monsters and wrestlers as sparring partners", and that it was brought down by its "stately pace, the endless expressions of paternal devotion, and the script's risible attempts to offer medical explanation and justifications". On a positive note, the review said that the film was "enhanced by Cardona's habit of highlighting dramatic moments by dropping in the odd expressionistically-tinged shot with cavalier disregard for matching photographic textures". TV Guide panned the film, calling it "[a] gross, unbelievably inept offering". Graeme Clark from The Spinning Image gave the film 5 out of 10 stars, writing, "As a curio it is worth seeing, but only for its regular incidents of ridiculousness".
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Surprised at not being unanimously followed and at finding himself countered on the spot by the partisans of the SI majority — Jeppesen Victor Martin, who immediately circulated a definitive repudiation of his imposture — Nash at first feigned astonishment that things had gone to the point of a complete break with the situationists; as if the fact of launching a public surprise attack full of lies was compatible with carrying on a dialogue, on the basis of some sort of Nashist Scandinavian autonomy. According to the SI, Nash's main goal was to use the seal of "situationism" to attract a few highly profitable art dealers. The SI stated that this was confirmed by the fact that Nash's new Swedish "Bauhaus", which consisted of two or three Scandinavian ex-situationists plus "a mass of unknowns flocking to the feast", immediately plunged into "the most shopworn forms of artistic production".The Counter-Situationist Campaign in Various Countries, Internationale Situationniste #8, 1963.
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Both the American Craft Museum and the Cooper-Hewitt obtained the Vik-ter Chair for their permanent collections, and the Cooper-Hewitt also owns a collection of models and drawings relating to the chair's development. In the catalog for the exhibition at the Weatherspoon Art Gallery, which was titled "The Chair: From Artifact to Object," curator Trevor Richardson gives context to Jackson's achievement with the Vik-ter Chair: > Between the severity of Minimalism on the one hand, and the exuberance of > Memphis on the other, there emerged a new breed of designer who chose to > work within the constraints of traditional design languages, while seeking > new ways to enrich their existing vocabulary. Far from appearing tired and > shopworn, this reworking has, in the hands of individuals such as Jonas > Bohlin, Dakota Jackson and Bořek Šípek, attained a new level of refinement > and sophistication. Although the Vik-ter Chair was designed for the contract market, its popularity led Jackson to make it available to the residential market and for sale directly to buyers through the Museum of Modern Art Design Store Catalog.
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" Joe Lynch of Billboard noted that the song drops "One Direction's MOR pop for the more critically respected PBR&B;". Another Billboard review wrote that "Malik has left bubblegum pop behind" and from "here on, it's slick R&B.;" Alex Abad-Santos of Vox found that the topic contains "shopworn clichés, making the song feel like it's marketed and packaged for young ears" but concluded "Zayn's billowy, swirling vocals sell it so well that 'Pillowtalk' becomes something better than it first set out to be." Christopher Weingarten in Rolling Stone wrote "there's nothing particularly special about his single" and found the lyrics "awkward" but concluded the song may be "important for R&B;'s future" as it "proves that the watery sound of alternative-leaning R&B; has way more legs than the cult of personality built around the Weeknd." Newsweek said the "track has an epic crashing chorus that’s raunchy and romantic in equal measure, with jazzy electronic elements that don’t overpower the 23-year-old’s formidable vocal chops.
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But over 16 tracks, you can't help but wish that one of country's greatest would shoot consistently higher than easy chuckles and sentimental homilies." A review by Variety called the album "strong but uneven", praising Paisley's guitar solos and the collaborations with Mick Jagger, while also noting that "there is a lot of familiar thematic ground to cover in fresh ways". Matt Bjorke of Roughstock was also favorable, saying that "After a little bit of time to work on his music outside of the spotlight, Brad Paisley has created, with Love and War, a project which rivals his best work, even if the album is more or less what fans would've wanted out of another Brad Paisley record." Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic was less positive, rating the album 2.5 stars out of 5 and noting that "While he never pushes too hard -- even the Timbaland tracks don't call attention to the beats -- the shiny production, shopworn jokes, and eager melodies have the cumulative effect of seeming too ready to please any audience that comes his way.
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By nightfall the leading divisions of 13th Guards Corps closed into defensive positions along the north bank of the Myshkova River, along with more than 200 tanks of the 2nd Guards Mechanized Corps. Even late on December 20, as the LVII Panzer Corps struggled to cross the Myshkova, Army Group Don was unaware of the presence of 2nd Guards Army backing up the shopworn 51st Army. On December 21 an overextended 3rd Guards Division found itself partly encircled in the Kapkinsky region and required support from 49th Guards while the 387th was in second echelon at Farm No. 1 - Tebektenerovo. Over the next 48 hours the LVII Corps gradually went over to the defensive and early on December 23 the 6th Panzer Division, facing 13th Guards Corps, was ordered southwest to counter the Soviet forces that were breaking loose in Operation Little Saturn, effectively bringing Winter Storm to a close.Glantz, Endgame at Stalingrad, Book Two, University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, 2014, pp. 147, 301-03, 305-09, 314-15 Stalingrad Front ordered its forces to go over to the offensive beginning at 0800 hours on December 24 after a brief artillery preparation.
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He was born on June 26, 1911, in Santa Barbara, California, and was educated at Hollywood High School where he was noted as being both an intellectual academic and a star athlete who graduated with several scholastic achievements in 1929. He had intended on furthering his education going onto medical school but following the Stock Market Crash of 1929, he choose to take other ventures and went straight into the workforce as a men's clothing model followed by a turn as a fitness instructor with the Los Angeles Athletic Club. In 1936, he was teaching an exercise class one day and was discovered by a talent scout who brought him to MGM Studios to be screen and wardrobe tested for motion pictures, the scout describing him, a blue-eyed, brown-haired man, who was 5 feet 8 inches in height, as appearing to be a "fine figure of masculinity with a nice round face". He began his career in 1937, in the motion picture The Bad Guy and went on to appear in 20 more films, some of which were My Dear Miss Aldrich (1937), The Shopworn Angel (1938), Snow Gets in your Eyes (1938), Marie Antoinette (1938), and Calling Dr. Kildare (1939).
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