Word: brilliante
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kobysh calls Galbraith "an economist and sociologist of world repute," a "brilliant essayist," and "a close associate of John Kennedy and ambassador to India at his request," and mentions that he is "more than two meters tall...
...outlook, to borrow a phrase from "Casey at the Bot," is not brilliant...
...also a brilliant tactician, capable of the drop shots and lobs that make for a varied pace of play. He expects that hard-soft mix to be a telling weapon against Connors. "This will be a mental battle," Newcombe says. "I won't be offensive all the time. I'll stay back and slow-ball him sometimes and let him make the mistakes...
Died. Larry Parks, 60, journeyman film actor who became a celebrated casualty of McCarthy-era antiCommunism; of a heart attack; in Studio City, Calif. A B-movie player in the early 1940s, Parks' fortunes rose sharply after his brilliant performance as Singer Al Jolson in the 1946 hit The Jolson Story, which earned Columbia Pictures more than $8 million and brought him several more starring roles. But his career was shattered in 1951 when he was subpoenaed by the House Un-American Activities Committee, which was investigating Communist influence in Hollywood. Parks became the first of dozens of actors...
...small stage, moves the action smoothly around the stage, although actors occasionally wander out of their spots, and the lighting is awkward at times. The skill of John Kirkwood's direction is apparent in the timing, humor and vitality of the show, especially in the bar scenes, when a brilliant supporting cast of Harlem characters continually brings the house down. Don Gillespie as Henry, Minnie's boyfriend; Sary Guinier as Lynn Clarisse, another of Jess's cousins; and Paul Ruffins as Brandon, a drunk in the bar, are particularly fine...