Word: dross
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that glitters is not gold, and there is a fair amount of dross in this anthology of the great comic moments of the silent films. Considered purely as entertainment, The Golden Age of Comedy proves the thesis that movies are better than ever; a few scenes of undeniable hilarity (almost all of them shown in the preview last week) are surrounded by interminable stretches of "classic" but boring sequences...
...tenth year-the year of the horse -TV has shaken down into a schedule so dense with dross that tuning in at almost any hour is enough to make the dial flip. Perhaps the wonder-and certainly cause for cheer-is that the viewer who steers a knowing course through the immense, unending flow of eyewash can still find so much to charm...
Gettysburg was a subject worthy to join the nuggets that Omnibus has been throwing into TV's current season of dross. In recent weeks it has served up a stunning Oedipus (TIME, Jan. 21), an illuminating and instructive essay on the dance by Agnes de Mille. and Leonard Bernstein's brilliant primer on modern music. To do this, Omnibus must virtually ignore the rest of TV's unabashed efforts to please at any price. Such is Omnibus' charter. So far it has spent some $8,900,000 of Ford Foundation funds in its five seasons (about...
...UNICEF's constant need for funds. The film's chief purpose, says Kaye, "is to bring to the attention of the people of the world what UNICEF is doing."* There were no shooting schedules, no rehearsals, no retakes and none of the familiar TV tinsel and dross-but a lot of unfamiliar spontaneity and holiday glow...
...change); it is much more that by diminishing James's story to a mere tampered-with story line, by restricting James's characters, to the role of mere plot carriers, Bolton has burned away the gold of James's great moral drama to leave the period dross of his somewhat too-fictional tale...