Word: brilliantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tiger, picked to finish no higher than fourth in the League without its captain and brilliant tailback Royce Flippin, will start Sid Pinch at that position for the sixth straight time today, and will be favored to move into the League lead by defeating the Crimson. Princeton has not lost to an Ivy opponent, and is rated a solid touchdown better than Harvard...
Kenneth More, however, makes up for everything with a brilliant performance. His problem was to portray a man who is everything he seems to be, who knows no lapse between the thought and the act, who wears his entire psyche on his sleeve. From the first fine flap of his dewlaps ("Hey, give us a shot of those gorgeous green orbs") to his endearing little growl ("Who wants to grow up in the world as it is?"), to the burp he releases exquisitely in the middle of a word, More is the perfect type of the easygoing dog that everybody...
...most powerful argument for Stevenson is not the shortcomings of other candidates. It is Stevenson himself. In the 1952 campaign, after a brilliant record as governor of Illinois, he brought a new quality and character to American politics. His slogan "talk sense to the American people" was carried out with few compromises. His appeal to the independent voter is great because-like Eisenhower-Stevenson is not primarily a politician...
...each of metallic sodium. The rocket took off 20 minutes after sunset. When it reached 40 miles and had disappeared from sight, automatic instruments ignited the thermite in the cylinders. The sodium vaporized, jetting out of a hole in the rocket's nose, and a brilliant orange-colored trail appeared against the blue sky. This was the sodium; it picked up the light of the sun, still shining above the shadow of the earth, and reradiated it as brilliant "sodium light...
...Knife (Robert Aldrich; United Artists) is one of the wickedest instruments ever plunged into Hollywood's always bleeding heart. Furthermore, it is twisted a few times, slowly, just to emphasize the point. The assassin in the case is Clifford Odets, the brilliant playwright (Waiting for Lefty) who lived right and thought left in Hollywood during the '40s. The deed he does here was originally perpetrated as a Broadway play in 1949. As a movie, it is arousing consternation, indignation and malicious delight among some of Hollywood's best people...