Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gris' appeal is more obvious when he uses brilliant colors, as in the vibrant "Violin et Guitare," or more imaginative, as in the melancholy "L'Arlequin," while his mastery of line work is demonstrated by a pair of fine lithographs, "Marcelle la Brune" and "Marcelle la Blonde...
...Deanna's brilliant tactical lapse from her role of would-be dramatic actress: while visiting Laughton's bachelor apartment, she does a moist-eyed, full-throated, full-dress rendition of Danny...
George Orwell, a talented leftist writer, has emerged as one of Britain's best satirists. Britons, chuckling at his new book, Animal Farm,† a 92-page laugh-and thought-provoking satire on Communism and the Soviet Union, are calling its author the most brilliant political satirist since Swift...
...outstanding: Napoleon, a big, rather fierce-looking boar of a Stalinesque taciturnity and resoluteness, and Snowball, an ingenious pig of Trotsky-esque vivacity and eloquence. There was also a somewhat Molotovish barrow named Squealer, "with very round cheeks, twinkling eyes, nimble movements, and a shrill voice. He was a brilliant talker, and when he was arguing some difficult point he had a way of skipping from side to side and whisking his tail which was somehow very persuasive...
...Hall L. Hibbard, 42, the $58,500-a-year vice president and chief engineer. Witty, brilliant, he designed the Electra, Hudson, P-38 and Constellation...