Word: fair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unfortunately, the story is not one inspiring real admirition. Of course it is hardly fair to expect a director to stress both magnificent camera work and much meaningful dialogue. The story is one of action, with mass sword play, lance charges and a great battle on an ice flow. Eisenstein sacrificed what psychological vitality he could have given the film with additional dialogue for the real article in physical terms...
...twilight at Dienbienphu. Narrow-eyed with loss of sleep, the French sentries peered through the monsoon haze towards the Communist trenches less than roo yards away. All was quiet, and the tired 10,000-man garrison hoped for a fair night's rest. At GHQ in Hanoi, an officer reported: "Lull at Dienbienphu...
...Moines Register and Tribune). He revealed the contents of the FBI report to the White House on Harry Dexter White before FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover made it public to a Senate committee (TIME, Nov. 30). ¶ For cartooning, the Washington Post and Times-Herald's biting, Fair Dealing Herbert L. Block ("Herblock"). He won his first Pulitzer in 1942. His second is for his cartoon on Stalin's death (see cut), CJ For news photography, Amateur Photographer Mrs. Walter M. Schau, first woman to win the prize. She was driving from her home in San Anselmo (Calif...
...practice, City Editor James H. Richardson of Hearst's Los Angeles Examiner (circ. 324,468) last week printed a special list of 85 "Forbidden Words" for his staff. Among the banned words and phrases: dragnet, aired, bared (for revealed), legal bombshell, probe (for investigate), sweeping investigations, innocent bystander, fair sex, goodies, kiddies, smoking weapon, dropped dead, ill-gotten gains, minced no words, nuptial knot, socialite, tongue-lashing, whirlwind courtship...
...photography is sensitive, catching in flutter of light and shade the fluttering mood of grace and despair. As the priest, Actor Claude Laydu wears a beautiful mask of spirituality but seems to have no idea how to suggest what is going on beneath the mask; though it is only fair to admit that few actors could have done better with so exacting a part. The main trouble with the picture is its failure to transmute the superb language of the book into equivalent images. Beautiful but difficult quotations keep appearing through the blur of pictures, like old lines through...