Word: best
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oscars, presented with far less fanfare than the celebrities who handed them out, were almost ignored in the razzle-dazzle. With seven Oscars, The Bridge on the River Kwai swept the field for best picture, best director (David Lean) and best actor (Alec Guinness). Relative Newcomer Joanne Woodward (The Three Faces of Eve) was named best actress. Sayonara provided both the best supporting actor (Red Buttons) and supporting actress (Miyoshi Umeki...
...Bridge on the River Kwai. The best picture in current release: Director David Lean's magnificent story of the horror and the glory of war; with Alec Guinness, William Holden. Jack Hawkins (TIME...
First. Find your best customers. "Are you telling women about your consumer credit facilities? Are you getting your message to the young families of middle income who buy most of the appliances? Are you hitting them at the right time-spring housecleaning time, vacation time...
...steadily, guiding and teaching him. Ramses, kept informed by his spies, visits a lot more than ten plagues on Moses, until he finally escapes from Egypt, crosses the Red Sea and sets out "into the Wilderness of Sinai." Author Fast handles his subject matter skillfully, is at his best in descriptions of palace life, battle scenes, landscape studies. His Moses is reasonably convincing as a potential lawgiver who comes to believe that the god Aton is really justice. But Howard Fast cannot get within miles of the God-inspired, prophetic Moses who stirred the soul and genius of the Chosen...
...Best Pal." Leopold seems to have an oddly clumsy, cloying sentimentality; in a gushing letter to Clarence Darrow, he wrote about the lawyer's courage in taking the case: "Nay, it is more than bravery. It is heroism." From prison he wrote a poem to his aunt ("Birdie, angel bright and fair. So sweet of face and white of hair"), and when he tells of Loeb's murder by a fellow convict, Leopold writes solemnly: "Strange as it may sound, he had been my best...