Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West, and across its pink sands marched generations of world conquerors. In 329 B.C. Alexander the Great sacked Samarkand ("Place of Sugars"), a city already centuries old. Rebuilt, Samarkand became one of the central depots on the great Silk Road from Byzantium to China, and flourished as a brilliant seat of Arab civilization, only to be destroyed again by Genghis Khan. Near the end of the 13th century, Marco Polo reported it once more a "very great and eminent city," and 100 years later Tamerlane made it the capital of his empire, which stretched from the Hellespont to the Ganges...
CLIENT RCA had problems with people. It was tightly bossed by prideful, brilliant David Sarnoff, who did better at creating products than marketing them. Its scientists performed better than its managers. When Burns arrived on the scene, RCA brass bared the corporate soul and accounting books. Burns worked up 100 monumental reports suggesting changes in RCA. To launch RCA in TV, Burns advised its National Broadcasting Co. to spend freely on a few outstanding shows and fill the other hours with low-budget shows; it proved to be NBC's success formula, set the pattern for other networks...
...office laggards in Italy, De Sica is forced to direct and act in cream-puff romances in order to scrape up the financing for an occasional picture of his choice. In The Maid he almost seems to be describing his own professional plight-and that of the once brilliant Italian film industry-when he haltingly asks a doctor: "Isn't there something to-reinvigorate? Just once in a while...
...poetry with lampoon. Result is that The Magician is perhaps his least successful film so far. But for every murky symbol, there is a sharp physical image: footsteps become important, a thunderclap almost too real, and shafts of light through the mist startlingly beautiful. With the help of this brilliant graphic technique, a haunting guitar score, and the talented stock company of players who have turned up in all recent Bergman films. The Magician manages to fascinate as it confuses, demonstrates that even inferior Bergman is worth sampling...
Mark Twain Tonight! Actor Hal Holbrook, 34, lends wit and wile to his re-creation of Samuel Clemens, 70, in a brilliant display of Americana...