Word: center
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...disappointing film because its core, the ballet, is not good. The fault lies in the filming, editing, and staging, not in the dancing. The camera is not expected to film a ballet entirely from fifth-row-center but neither should it show the movements of the dance as if they were viewed from an aerial kaleidoscope. The whole effect (except for the final bit at the church) is only that--effect. One gets the idea of Miss Shearer leaping through seas of rippling cellophane and grotesque faces, but there are hardly 20 continuous minutes of sustained dancing. Miss Shearer...
Things Were Tough. As Smith's article hit the newsstands last week, the Army leaped to the defense. Things had been much tougher for the 27th than Howlin' Mad had had any idea of, the Army insisted. In the center, it had been up against the main enemy defenses. It was late jumping off only because the Marine division it was relieving had lost about 500 yards during the night, which the 27th had to regain. Finally, the Army pointed out that an all-Army board of inquiry had declared Smith's relief "not justified...
During the war, Shankar was forced to close the Culture Center which he built in Almora to remind India of its ancient dances. Now, at 48, he hopes to open another one. Shankar's crusade to give Indian music back to the Indians has not always been easy. For much of modern India, with its "hateful, rotten towns, its drinking and enjoying," he cares little. The Indian public doesn't always care for Shankar either, he admits. It thinks his art is often "too high-no cheap songs," says Shankar, "no cheap jokes...
...quarterback Bill Henry runing the show for three periods with one eye sealed tight by a scratch; Captain Kenny O'Donnell scoring what proved to be the winning touchdown with his fractured leg in a plaster cast; third string center Chuck Glynn saving a touchdown by knocking Keller out of bounds on the Harvard two on fourth down; third-string tailback Jim Kenary intercepting a Furse pass on the Harvard seven; and above all, it was the finesse with which everybody carried out his assignment, whether it was blocking, tackling, or running. "The most beautiful drilled team I've seen...
Captain Phil Potter and center halfback Don Louria, both playing the final games of their college careers, led the way as the Crimson outran and outpassed a game Yale team, which at no time was able to match the ball control of the varsity...