Word: brightest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...serious. Felicia Montalegre plays a female lion-tamer with a vigor and grace that fail only when the excitement or anguish of her lines forces her to plunge through them. In smaller roles, Theodore Bikel, Alexander Scourby and Rita Vale are probably the show's brightest actors, with the rest of the cast not far behind...
...inevitable that such companions should get to know each other. Last week the introductions got under way. Bluff, tough Marshal Tito packed off with his brightest uniforms, an entourage of 50 Yugoslavs and eight carloads of baggage, to become the first chief of a European state to make a visit to Nehru's India...
...some other young rebels named Rouault, Derain and Vlaminck. A critic promptly dubbed them Les Fauves-"Wild Beasts." Never since the Dark Ages (when artist-monks symbolized reality, instead of trying to counterfeit it, in their illuminations) had painters used colors so arbitrarily. Matisse's colors were the brightest he could buy, brushed in flat and separated by dancing lines. A tree might be turquoise or tangerine, a river russet, a girl gold, with green hair...
Hollywood reacted with hurt confusion, and clouds of columnists began buzzing about Brando's head. Day after day, the brightest color in many a gossip column was Brando blood. They called him "the male Garbo," and "a Dostoevsky version of Tom Sawyer." They built up a legend in the public mind that, true or false, is sure to stick. Where Barrymore was "The Great Profile," Valentino "The Sheik" and Gable "The King," Marlon Brando is known to millions who read about Hollywood every day as "The Slob...
...wore a fragment of a vase full of spreading greenery. She looked like Maud who had finally come into the garden and been left there too long. The lady was all clay, and the creation of Denmark's Bjorn Wiinblad (rhymes with keen blot), one of the brightest ceramists in the business...