Word: disdain
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...obvious advantages of closeups, fadeouts and greater fluidity, the presentation also contributed Otis Riggs's clean, spare scenery which released play and players from the Old Vic's 19th century picture-book designs. John Neville, in the role that Olivier once dismissed with Mercutio-like disdain ("Romeo is really a jerk"), was carved out of beaverboard; he crashed parties and climbed vines gracefully enough, but gave more a bloodless recitation than a performance full of the juices of life. But Claire Bloom, 26, was a prize Juliet who made even her more hackneyed passages sound fresh. Looking...
Interpreter of the U.S. The most notable exception to the dumpling dullness of the press is Der Spiegel (circ. 300,000), a TIMEstyle weekly newsmagazine, published by Rudolf Augstein, who at 33 is one of West German journalism's youngest and most ambitious luminaries. Last week, with characteristic disdain for the obvious, cocky Der Spiegel (The Mirror) made no mention of its tenth anniversary. Instead, Publisher Augstein celebrated by assigning Staffer Claus Jacobi to Washington, where he will open Der Spiegel's first overseas news bureau...
Concerning the present crisis in the Near East, he said that this administration has "spoon fed" Nasser to a position of importance while treating Israel with "cold disdain...
...Sullivan a fortnight ago in the battle for TV's Sunday-at-8 audience (TIME, July 16), the burning question among television's hucksters was: Who had done it, Allen or his guest star, Elvis ("The Pelvis") Presley? Sullivan, in the unaccustomed position of runner-up, affected disdain for the Pelvis, snorted that he would not have the gyrating groaner "at any price" on his family-type program. "He is not my cup of tea," Sullivan said loftily...
...pulpit. Though the minister's hair has a certain flowing grace, the rest of him does not. He looks like a bullfrog. The powerful throat seems to be preparing its organ tones; the wide, traplike mouth is about to open. Meanwhile, the brilliantly modeled eyes focus with disdain upon someone in the back row−whether a sinner or a sneezer. The portrait achieves a quality rare in most places and times, and almost unheard of in its own: immediacy...