Word: brilliantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wilson Bigaud's Mambo (see cut) is a complex scene-showing the ceremonial feeding of a sacrificial cock-composed with brilliant simplicity. Only 22, and hungry for further knowledge of art, Bigaud leads the field in Haiti. He borrowed his not-at-all-primitive stipple technique ready-made from a book of Van Gogh reproductions that U.S. Critic Selden Rodman gave him last summer...
...sextet's defensive problem was again solved by the brilliant goaltending of Charlie Flynn, who totaled 36 saves during the game. On one occasion when B.U. made its last bid in the final minutes the veteran goalie saved four shots while lying on his back...
...these ratings there was substantial agreement on several outstanding linemen: Ends Ron Beagle of Navy, Don Holleder of Army and Max Boydston of Oklahoma; Tackle Jack Ellena of U.C.L.A.; Guard Bud Brooks of Arkansas; Center Kurt Burris of Oklahoma. In the backfield, four of the season's brilliant stars ran away with the All-America polls: Quarterback Ralph Guglielmi of Notre Dame; Halfbacks Howard ("Hopalong") Cassady of Ohio State and Dick Moegle of Rice; Fullback Alan ("The Horse") Ameche of Wisconsin...
Suddenly, across the noonday sky from west to east, swept a brilliant fireball. It left a long trail of white (some observers said black) smoke, and it flew so high that it was seen almost simultaneously in Greenville, Miss., Montgomery, Ala. and Atlanta. Over Sylacauga it exploded with a boom like thunder (some said a series of booms). A schoolboy in Montgomery, 50 miles away, insisted that the blast almost knocked him off his bicycle...
Nevertheless, right down to their final act of betrayal, the moviemakers are sensitively loyal to most of Greene's transcendent meanings, and catch them, like mysteriously luminous fish, in a well-spread net of images. The result is something less than Greene's brilliant attempt to plumb the nature of pity; but it is at least a cruelly beautiful picture of a man who made a sin of saintliness...