Word: brilliantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rights, the film should be a flop. Yet it is a brilliant achievement, owing in part to the fact that Welles knows how to make the most of the movie medium as a valid and unique art form. No-one but Welles would have devised, following the lead of the ancient Greek exodos, the grandly impressive (and wordless) epilogue, within which the story itself is a flashback--thereby imparting a new form and focus to the finished product. No-one but Welles could have thought up the settings for the drunken brawl and the killing of Roderigo. Welles' direction...
Defenseman Mario Celi scored two of the five, both unassisted, to add a brilliant offensive touch to his fine defensive play. On his first he intercepted a Dartmouth pass at mid-ice and raced past the defense to tally at 7:02 on a 15-foot backhand shot...
...Frenchmen wept when they read in their newspapers one October morning in 1944 that Louis Renault had died in a Paris nursing home. He had been rich, powerful and famous, cantankerous, brilliant, often brutal, the little Napoleon of an automaking empire. But France's only eulogy for him was a grimace and an ugly word: "collaborator." Last week, in the cooler atmosphere of eleven years later, Louis Renault's widow sought a court decision to establish that Renault had not died of uremia, but had been "deliberately murdered after torture." The widow's story made big headlines...
...Middle East is "almost inevitable by the summer of this year," Israel's brilliant Ambassador to the U.S., Abba Eban, told a New York fund-raising meeting of U.S. Jews last week. This official Israeli line had an "unless" to it-unless the Western world employs "firm, deliberate and speedy action." The kind of action Israel meant was U.S. arms aid, plus a military alliance. It is "folly," cried New York's old Senator Herbert Lehman, for the U.S. not to stand up for Israel against the Arabs...
...much more is known about Sharaku. He simply appeared for a moment, brilliant and unexpected as a comet, in the rich, slowly circling heaven...