Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bloch: String Quartet No. 2 (Stuyvesant String Quartet; International, 8 sides). Good, but not the most brilliant Bloch. He got off to a fine start but faltered along the way. Performance: fair...
Treasure of Sierra Madre. Walter Huston, Humphrey Bogart and Tim Holt in Director John Huston's brilliant adventure fable (TIME...
...school, Paul-Henri was erratically brilliant. Once, when he flunked an exam, he forestalled punishment by declaring: "I have already administered to myself the full flow of reproach which a boy in my situation usually gets from Papa and Maman" Spaak's culture is essentially French, and his early heroes were French. He was particularly keen on Napoleon until, in his own words, he "became aware that it was compromising for a politician to admire Napoleon too much...
...podium, he got an ovation. When the curtain went up, the audience was at first more taken with the simple blue & white brilliance of the set (by Isamu Noguchi) than with the somber opening chords of Stravinsky's music. But Orpheus turned out to be a brilliant wedding of score, choreography and setting. It was not, however, an incitement to riot, as its famed predecessor The Rite of Spring had been in Paris, 35 years ago. Composer Stravinsky, in white tie & tails, took his bows onstage with the dancers, his feet crossed in his best Position...
Here Comes Morgan. In May 1947, taciturn, brilliant Stanley Kramer, who had almost made it as a movie producer when war came, and squat, shrewd George Glass, known as "an honest pressagent," took options on 30 of the late Ring Lardner's stories. They picked The Big Town for their first picture, changed the title and went looking for a star to fit the script. What comedian could handle Lardner's light touch without seeming all thumbs? Screen Plays eyed radio's Henry Morgan. After reading the story and a 100-page "treatment," Morgan said...