Word: concealments
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...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...
...fashions more spectacularly inconsequintial, the colors more hormone-creamy, the lines more jerky-smirky ("A kiss is like lighting a stove. It doesn't prove that you can cook"). Edie Adams and Jack Oakie provide bright bits. But Doris Day, 37, is filmed in soft focus to conceal her wrinkles, and sometimes unfortunately her features disappear too. Furthermore, Rock Hudson, the oversized, undertalented ex-postman from Winnetka, Ill., still has not learned to deliver the male. Best line is punched out by Tony Randall, playing as usual the sort of neurotic who, when hurt, hollers "Couch!" When the chemist...
...much for her. Still, the girl is quite healthy in her feelings: innocent, loving, obedient. She would make a good mother, an excellent physical partner. In the end, the mother overcomes her doubts and even her scruples-she decides not only to permit the marriage but also to conceal the girl's condition from the boy and his family...
...giants of Communism no longer seriously bothered to conceal the extent of their quarrel, but in a curious, ritualistic way, they continued to insult by proxy. Each directed its heaviest invective against the rival's hangers-on and harassed those hapless party figures who symbolized the opposing ideological camps...
...President was the fact that Government stockpiles of industrial materials that the nation might need in event of war had long since outstripped the scandalous farm hoard, are now valued at more than $7.7 billion.* Brusquely dismissing the plea of "military secrecy," which has long been used to conceal the exact extent of stockpiling operations. Kennedy said that stockpiles now contain almost twice as much material as the Pentagon assumes the U.S. would need for a three-year war. He estimated that the excess supply of nickel alone was worth $103 million, the excess supply of aluminum another $347 million...