Word: cleverness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Party with Betty Comden and Adolph Green. This talented pair has a ball doing movie parodies, songs, dances and clever patter. They know their stuff; they wrote...
...Party with Betty Comden and Adolph Green. This talented pair has a ball doing movie parodies, gongs, dances, and clever patter. They know their stuff; they wrote...
...painter, has written Cadenza as if to prove that O'Brien and Donleavy were squares and that James Joyce was well within his rights when he borrowed the English language and returned it in a condition unfit for use by the original owners. Cadenza is a maddeningly clever and occasionally poetic tale which concerns the identity -in a shifting foreground of misplaced time and mistimed space-of a wantonly Irish character called Desmond...
Abruptly, at this point, the character of the film changes. The first 60 minutes add up to a clever psychological thriller, marked and sometimes marred by solemn efforts to see the crime in its social and spiritual setting-as a single pustule in a larger leprosy. The trial, arguing from this evidence, swiftly develops an eloquent though somewhat overextended plea for the abolition of the death penalty. The film rises to a memorable peroration in the words of Clarence Darrow (Orson Welles), as he asks the court to temper justice with mercy, sentence his clients to life in prison. "Life...
...subject of many headlines last Fall, the Committee to Study Disarmament sprang up just a year ago. Though most members were sincerely concerned with the disarmament problem, a few joined with rather curious motives. When interest lagged, these clever fellows stepped into the "power vacum," played some unconstitutional tricks, brought in a flock of cronies, and elected one of their number as president. The name was promptly changed to the Committee Against Appeasement. During a student Council inquiry, however, the trickster resigned, and the group was left free to puruse its original purpose...