Word: brilliantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last spring Eyre brought Scott back from New York to star in the title role of King Lear, which garnered from its five reviewers such plaudits as "perfect," "brilliant," and "unbeatable...
...movie of this type, it is a rare director who can resist the temptation to play up the ominous threat of the Nazis. Peter Glenville manages to stay away from this chestnut until the end, when it is consequently more effective. Although his direction is not brilliant, it is consistent, and while the camera work generally dull, there are a few good moments...
Goren's six club bid was unorthodox but brilliant. It was just the sort of bid a bridge player can make with a partner like Helen Sobel-if the player himself happens to be Charles Goren, king of the aces...
True enough to the seven-leagued book, Carton is introduced as an untrustworthy, melancholy rummy-brilliant lawyer and all that, but essentially a tosspot. Bogarde flips his banister's wig over happily married Lucic, and from then on, both sides of the English Channel are awash in his nobility. Director Ralph Thomas leaps like a mountain goat from peak to peak: Lucie's love for Charles Darnay, the revolutionary mobs swarming in the streets of Paris, and finally Sydney Carton's self-sacrificing death to save Darnay. But inevitably the film must miss many of the deeper...
Ford tuned up with a brilliant one-hit effort in six innings Friday night against Baltimore. Manager Casey Stengel of the New York Yankees is expected to make a formal pronouncement on Ford after Monday morning's workout at Yankee Stadium...