Word: concealing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite their revealing interest in politics, most of those choosing Quincy made little attempt to conceal their attraction to its physical facilities. In answer to "Why did you pick this House?" one student wrote "material comfort," another, "Go down and take a look for yourself...
There is beauty: Suzanne Pleshette, a recruit from television whose eyelashes, "the longest in Hollywood," do not quite conceal her meticulously well-rehearsed starlet smile...
...tale is trite, the script clumsy, and the camera work grossly faked. Though the lovers wander all over Paris, the Cathedral of Notre Dame turns up in the background practically everywhere they go, almost as if it were following them around like a little dog. To conceal such defects, Director Minnelli pours on the martial music and the Metrocolor. When war is declared, the screen turns such a bright blood red that for about half an hour afterward everything looks green. And the Four Horsemen-the Biblical war, pestilence, death and conquest-gallop across the sky at intervals like...
Returning to Blida a convinced nationalist, Benkhedda wrote patriotic pamphlets and organized a group to paint the town red with slogans for Algerian independence. He vividly recalls being surprised by the police one night. He and his friends just barely managed to conceal their brushes and paint cans beneath their flowing djellabas. The police took it for granted that the freshly painted signs could not be the work of the supposedly illiterate and frightened Moslems who stood before them...
...fair. The production also suffers from the paralyzed, tableau style of Douglas Scale's direction. In the end, Saint Joan is the least remarkable of the Old Vic's productions, but it is paradoxically the outstanding one of the lot. For Shakespeare's poetry cannot fully conceal the gaping flaws in Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet. Saint Joan is, in purely dramatic terms, the best of the three plays...