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Word: brilliante (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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John Connally left the building he had entered 39 years ago and stood in the brilliant sunshine in his elegant tailoring and the funny little hat he always wears. He is an old-fashioned man in many ways, but one who relishes the world. He has always believed he could mold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: He'll Let Us Know | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

Days of Heaven is lush with brilliant images. Set in the Texas Panhandle just before World War I, this movie unleashes one spectacular panorama after another: snowy plains aglow in the blue light of a winter moon, wheatfields shimmering under a burnt autumn sun, expansive skies carpeted with cumulus clouds. There is enough beauty here for a dozen movies; yet the total effect is far from pretty. Slowly but surely the sharp images carve away at the audience's guts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Night of the Locust | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

...nasty villain who wants to destroy the human race; 3) two handsome young bucks who trade good-humored gibes; 4) the most huggable little robot in the universe; 5) a bizarre barroom populated by inhuman creatures on a desert planet; 6) lots of gray spaceships whishing around against a brilliant blue background...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Small-Screen Star Wars | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

Rich completely missed the boat on John Belushi; "fat comic actor" indeed! Jackie Gleason is a fat comic. Belushi is a brilliant Marlon Brando type who maybe needs to lose 20 Ibs. There's a significant-and very sexy-distinction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 11, 1978 | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

...less satisfactory. Stoppard has always depended on gimmicks, but in his best work, like Travesties (1975), he has used them as a starting point to develop characters and situations. In Every Good Boy the gimmick has taken over, and the play ends where it began, with a brilliant conceit waiting to be developed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Trick and Treat | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

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