Word: blunting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More elaborate presentation of my remarks on "white Liberals" and black nationalists, as well as the use of the interstate commerce clause, would similarly have rendered them rather less blunt and opionated than they might appear from your report. But I will let those matters pass in the hope that you will find the space to print the last paragraph of the talk, so that your readers will not have the impression that it was devoted to criticism of the civil rights movements, with which I am whole-heartedly in sympathy...
What does Mao Tse-tung want? He wants Nikita Khrushchev dead. In so many blunt words, Mao told this to a French parliamentary delegation visiting Peking last month. As recalled in Paris last week by the six returning Deputies, the interview presented a fascinating glimpse of the Red Chinese leader...
...Holbrook is bouncy, boyish and blunt in the title role, and David Wayne's Great Khan suggests a sage who is more than makeup-deep. But Zohra Lampert, as a princess who falls helplessly in love with Venice's merchant prince, is as woefully miscast as she is woundingly lovely. The recurring plaint about Broadway's producers is that they do not know a bad play when they see one. Marco Millions raises the question even more pointedly. Why, with all its own resources and innumerable classics to draw from, did the Lincoln Repertory directors shoot their...
...ills of men by poking through the ashes of religious faith. His concluding statement is a bold, unpredictable work, touched with genius, but at the same time murky, exasperating, and occasionally dull. Those expecting a magnum opus will be disappointed; so will those looking solely for sensation. For the blunt dialogue and the erotic scenes-shortened by 55 seconds for U.S. distribution-seem justified as part of the film's theme and development...
...Joan Crawford cuts loose in a sanguinary shudder-show that suffers from a split personality. It was written by Robert Bloch (Psycho), but screams for the sure hand of Hitchcock; it aspires to the Grand Guignol of Baby Jane, but falls short of being droll. Yet despite foolish dialogue, blunt direction, and a fustian plot, there are moments of breath-stopping terror as the heads roll, at times almost literally...