Word: cleverness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rest of the film's pedigree matches its cast. With script by Faulkner from Hemingway's novel and Hawkes as director, there are so many clever lines that even bit players have good roles. This is the "if-you-want-me-just-whistle" and the "Hong Kong Blues" film. It has Bacall at the height of her slinky period and she sings "How Little We Know." It comes to grips with the cosmos and sums it up in the single question "was you ever bit by a dead bee?" There are wise cracks and tough talks with sizzling looks that...
...favor the unexpected slogan, the daring phrase, and the clever metaphor. After discarding a welter of potential winners I finally penned this entry, "I want to go to Niagara Falls and see the whole cast of Rose Marie go over the Falls in a Cinemascopic Barrel...
...Yankees aren't spectacular, but then, they haven't been spectacular for the past five years. Their winning combination seems to be a weird mixture of a great tradition, a clever-trading front office, an infinitely resourceful manager, an inexhaustible farm system and a bunch of old pros...
...musical background to Jack Webb's picture on TIME'S cover ... is decidedly clever but proves once more that few artists know how to read notes. Assuming that the notation of the "dum du dum dum" theme is in the bass clef (which is not indicated), the tones would be in major key instead of the intended minor, unless a flat sign were placed in front of the note B. It would have been quite easy to get along without any such "accidental" by simply putting the theme into the key of A minor instead of G minor...
...their own civilization. Perhaps because I am French I say this. But colonialism is not important any more. Everyone understands that the French want to leave here. But there is no leadership in the Vietnamese people. And so there will be an appeasement. The Communists, if they are clever, will first have a non-Communist government like Burma, and the French will leave with honor. And what can the American Congress do about it? It will be angry and helpless. When the time is ripe, the Communists will have Indo-China...