Word: faceting
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...George Seaton adds: "Grace doesn't throw everything at you in the first five seconds. Some girls give you everything they've got at once, and there it is-there is no more. But Grace is like a kaleidoscope: one twist, and you get a whole new facet." Under Hitchcock's expert direction, Grace bloomed in Rear Window. As a sleek young career girl, she distilled a tingling essence of what Hitchcock has called "sexual elegance." She was learning her trade. The way she walked, spoke and combed her hair had a sureness that gives moviegoers...
...Detective (Facet; Columbia). The priest as the detective-symbolizing consecrated good against dedicated evil-appealed to G. K. Chesterton's keen sense of antithesis, and in the Father Brown stories he rammed the paradox, like an intellectual skeleton, through some otherwise flabby fiction. In this movie based on the stories, the intellectual skeleton is removed, and the film falls all of a sentimental heap...
Your issue of Aug. 9 ... gives us another bizarre facet of the McCarthy-Cohn combination in "One Enchanted Evening" . . . One is prone to ask if there can possibly be any sincerity in such a nauseating display of sentimentality...
...solidly behind Plan E, and PR is a fundamental facet," he states. "As to endorsed candidates, we asked them to campaign for PR. Our only request is that no candidate speak against...
Oscar Peterson Collates, No. 2 (Clef LP). Unquenchable Jazz Pianist Peterson plays eight numbers, turns a new facet in every one. In tameless he is a firm-footed bopster a la Lennie Tristano; in Until the Real Thing Comes Along he chuckles along like a latter-day Fats Waller; his How High the Moon is rhythmically soulful, with fistfuls of notes; he toys with I Get a Kick Out of You like a playful kitten...