Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cast was brilliant. While Anne Bancroft (Regina) was playing for time, she looked like a panther who had faith in claws. A diabolical laugh ran through her voice whenever she gained the upper hand. And the times she lost control--my God, what a bitch...
...CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER, by William Styron. A chilling and brilliant exploration of the mind and life of the mad, messianic Virginia slave who led a bloody rebellion...
Finding men able to fill the top jobs may turn out to be the party's biggest problem. The system tends to elevate men of restricted vision, the technocrats and the apparatchik! (party career men), and to submerge and frustrate the more brilliant and innovative thinkers. "The dichotomy," says State Department Kremlinologist Zbigniew Brzezinski, "is between a mediocre public leadership and an increasingly talented society." Just as they have turned against ideology, the brighter young Russians are now reluctant to go in for a party career. In an otherwise routine and un interesting anniversary speech last week, Brezhnev went...
...foot screen that now wraps Miss Christie around you, ear to ear, the same production team has again turned out a film conspicuous for its economy of movement and quick cuts. The punches are missing; instead an England that existed 100 years ago is visually celebrated in sharp, brilliant color and a few long, sumptuous pans...
...never rained till after sun down and where by royal decree summer lingered through September. By Broadway standards, no musical ever had a more regal lineage. Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, the creators of My Fair Lady, did book and lyrics, based on T. H. White's brilliant tetralogy The Once and Future King. Moss Hart directed; the stars were Julie Andrews, Richard Burton, Robert Goulet...