Word: complimented
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With Jonson's material, Harry Bauer, Louis Jouvet and a compliment of minor, but not lesser, actors create one of the funniest pictures before the modern era of slick underplaying. As Volpone, Bauer mugs and minces, as funny when he is playing dead as he is doing setting-up exercise of languid slapstick. His voice and his face alternate as the best things in the picture...
...indifferently that the other actors get no benefit from the reading. During a Streetcar rehearsal, Actor Karl Malden once smashed his fist into a wall in sheer frustration. Marlon refuses to change, says he has to feel himself into the part that way. Once when a woman tried to compliment him on a screen performance, Marlon broke in coldly: "You've got a run in your stocking...
Along with a special issue on American literature, the London Times Literary Supplement last week paid the U.S. a handsome compliment. "Nowhere," it announced, "in the modern world is there a more rewarding literature than that which America has to offer." But in its ensuing lengthy analysis, the Times also had some sharp observations-and a few reservations-about U.S. culture and character in general. Among them...
When the new Senator had finished, eight of her colleagues rose to compliment her. Among them was one of the oldest hands in the Senate, North Dakota's cantankerous Bill Langer, who thought she had done a fine job of presenting her case, but hoped "that before adjournment she will have completely changed her mind." Mrs. Bowring stood her ground: "In connection with [that] hope . . . the junior Senator from Nebraska may perhaps be as inflexible as the senior Senator from North Dakota...
...would like to compliment you on the May 3 issue of TIME, in which you featured Earth Mover Harry Morrison . . . It is my opinion that Harry Morrison and other American builders of this type are doing more to build good will with our foreign neighbors than the Marshall-Acheson-Dulles combined team has ever done or ever will...