Word: ark
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Probably Bishop Louttit also takes seriously the funny little kindergarten story of Uncle Noah and his ark. If only people like him would come down from their clouds and set foot on earth, they might do a lot of good...
...powerful in the dramatic scenes as the indomitable mother-figure part of the eternal feminine. But it is her voice that commands. Her motions are stiff and awkward in key scenes. Nightingale who outfits a comic chorus with amazing props and movements (they make marvelous animals going into the Ark), seems to have directed disembodied voices in the serious scenes. Even Beck, the company's most polished performer, often appears unsure of what to do with his hands at dramatic moments. The power of the scenes, especially the ends of the three acts, is undercut...
Alternatives have been offered to Long's scheme. Sen. John McClellan (D.-Ark.) has suggested setting aside certain categories of research in which professors could apply for patents. It's also been proposed that professors be allowed to profit from their discoveries for a limited time after making them...
...story of Abraham. Lineage becomes a problem, and at one point the burgeoning family of man crowds the screen with something resembling a pyramid of Chinese acrobats. Huston plays Noah, mugging simplicity as he takes his orders from the Almighty, cramming in a lot of low comedy aboard the Ark and looking sorely tempted to burst into the Rodgers & Hammerstein admonition that chicks 'n' ducks 'n' geese better scurry. Generally, the acting style is holier-than-thou, for Huston conducts his ensemble rather like an old-fashioned Sunday-school master who has put on a multimillion...
...enough, can turn into Al Capp"; "Inadmissible Evidence is so many slivers run under all the fingernails in the auditorium." No critic, in fact, pays such meticulous attention to his prose. Indeed, he sometimes sacrifices content to style and overwrites. He trotted out a veritable Noah's Ark to praise Barbra Streisand's performance in Funny Girl: "She's like a grasshopper, a shy one . . . she's an eel on a chair, nibbling at flowers . . . second cousin to an octopus on a chaise longue." And he is overly fond of metaphors of cuisine: "Well-done with...