Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The speaker then expounded on the "dual character of the Gospel" and on the "new reality" of Christ's revelation. He explained that the Revelation is the announcement of something come, yet also coming. It is the coming of a new epoch--"the presence of the living God among men...
Of course, filming a heavily allegorical, one-character story is an ambitious undertaking. But with the realization that La Mar is "a woman who can give or withhold great favors" from the moviemaker as well as from the fisherman, and with less overall slavishness to Hemingway's manuscript, The Old...
As for the music, a clue comes when a minor character (representing Menotti's caricature of modern-minded critics) deplores the romantic 19th century and asks: "Must music be only sweet?" In this work, as never before, Menotti proves himself essentially a 19th century composer. At its worst, the...
Author Keyes could not. Fiction, as she suggests in her preface, must not be completely fictitious, and murders are "not rampant or even frequent" in Louisiana rice fields. So, instead, Author Keyes has made her tale turn on a murder in a rice bin. The victim is a fictional cabaret...
Since the whole thing is a farce, the actors are at their funniest when they parody their own box-office personalities. Bogart attempts a dashing and impossible escape from the Arabs, and his nonsense bravado is great. Lorre, playing a dubious character named Julius O'Hara, intrigues around wonderfully. Lollobrigida...