Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Saud was a kingly guest. As the destroyer coursed northward through the livid heat of the Red Sea, he sat in his tent, scorning a cabin (and wisely avoiding the ship's low overhead). Mustachioed desert warriors, armed with daggers and clad in brilliant abbayat, roamed the deck. Arab servants squatted in every corner, butchered sheep and cooked them on glowing charcoal braziers. The destroyer's commander had declined the King's offer of enough live mutton for the whole ship's company. But the King had plenty for himself, his party, and for a banquet...
Never had military coordination between the Russians and the Western Allies been so close. In January a Soviet mission had come to SHAEF in Paris, and U.S. airmen had gone to Moscow. Now London disclosed that Sir Arthur Tedder-Eisenhower's brilliant deputy commander and one of the world's great air strategists -had also gone to Moscow, to organize "close liaison between the advancing Russian armies and British and American bomber forces in the west." Said Eisenhower: "The Russians have furnished me with all the information I needed to know, and have done so cheerfully and willingly...
...white: a narrative style that is simple, direct, almost completely without pretense or decoration, yet never flat. In Black Boy, that narrative tells the story of his first 1 8 years, in Natchez and Jackson, Miss., Elaine, Ark. and on Beale Street in Memphis. The story is a brilliant account of how it feels to be a sensitive Negro growing up in the U.S. South...
...though a more human, spontaneous and revealing study of an embryonic genius. Though Joyce dismissed it as a "schoolboy's production," it is sensitive and readable by almost anybody's standards. In the early draft Joyce is a more recognizable college student-swaggering, confused, arrogant, emotional, but brilliant...
...memory chiefly as a yell with red hair. As a curtain raiser (it would make a good short by itself) there is also a rather cute penguin who travels north to an equatorial island and acquires a suntan. The movie as a whole presents the unhappy spectacle of a brilliant artist screaming his lungs out in an effort to make up for the fact that he has, for the moment, nothing...