Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plot was "widespread" and must be taken seriously. Said the Paris newspaper L'Aurore: "Lamballe? Why, there is, in that old Breton village, a street called 'L'Impasse du Haha.' . . ."** For reasons that will remain obscure to Americans this is regarded in France as a brilliant political crack, explaining everything...
After waiting half an hour for Britain's Royal Family to arrive for the final match, Kramer went to work on fellow Californian Tom Brown. It was not even close. Kramer's big serve, with its high and tricky bounce, his skill at the net, his brilliant passing shots were all going like clockwork. It was all over in 45 minutes: 6-1, 6-3, 6-2, but Kramer was convinced that he had put on a lackluster show. Said he afterwards: "We were both excited and nervous before the match started because there was such a long...
...Laura is much less tense than talky. What's more, the characters are all fairly dull, particularly those who are meant to be most fascinating. As the magnetic Laura, K. T. Stevens proves a washout in everything but looks; and, though Otto Kruger acts the decadent, supposedly brilliant Lydecker skillfully, the authors of the play make him a bore...
...stand-bys put the audience into just the mood into which they wanted to be put, and the two Khatchourian dances, at once delicate and vigorous, led to "Finlandia," which rounded out the first half of the program. After the intermission, Benjamin Britten's variations on Rossini provided a brilliant modern interpretation of this airy, yet worldly, composer...
...James Mason in Carol Reed's brilliant, uneven allegorical melodrama about a fugitive killer (TIME, March...