Word: bravuraed
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...Although [Christy's] style has altered to some extent, its prevailing emphasis is still upon what we conveniently call attributes of the fashionable school of painting. Times may change but the artists of this persuasion hold fast to the bravura surface fireworks...
Donald Oenslager's collapsing stage set for the last scene provides as realistic a theatrical catastrophe as has been seen in Manhattan since The Storm. J. Edward Bromberg, the fatherly physician of Men in White, revels in his role of Guy Button, plays that bravura part to the hilt and beyond...
...rich bravura part, Miss Bankhead impersonates a dashing, devil-may-care sportswoman named Judith Traherne. Thoroughly rebellious, she is taken to see Dr. Steele (Earle Larimore of the Theatre Guild), a brain specialist, by her family physician who is unable to diagnose an obscure ailment of which she is as intolerant as she is afraid. Dr. Steele, about to move to Vermont and settle down to general practice, has the unhappy task of discovering that the young woman has a brain tumor which will kill her in ten months...
...flour processing tax), the Holy Name Society at Saginaw, Mich, (asking closer supervision of movies). The volume of these communications was prodigious, but not so prodigious as the cloudburst of bills released by the Senators themselves- mostly individual relief and pension measures. The most arresting example of Senatorial bravura occurred not inside but outside the Senate. Louisiana's blatant Long thought he had taken a wide swing to the Left when he introduced a resolution for Senate legislation which would allow no citizen to keep more than $1,000,000 of his income, or to receive bequests totaling more...
...begins the series of bravura roles which still cause critical dismay and the almost unanimous opinion that Katharine Cornell is an actress who has triumphed in spite of her parts. The actress disagrees. "I have never been persuaded by a management to appear in a production in which I did not wish to be seen. Whatever may be said about the drama in which I have acted, I am very glad I selected them for in every one of them I have benefited greatly in the development of my work by the experience gained." In analysis, her playing these parts...