Word: faultless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...executed by the Kuomintang; a daughter went to school in Moscow and married a Spanish Communist. Sharp-tongued and humorless, Liu Shao-chi has flicked a raw spot on nearly everyone around him. When Premier Chou En-lai suggested in a speech that no one could be considered faultless, he was forced to admit that "Chairman Mao and Comrade Liu Shao-chi and a few other leaders have achieved the stage of perfection." Liu even opposed Mao Tse-tung on the "let a hundred flowers bloom" theory and-in Communist terms-was proved right. He annoys Soviet officials by telling...
...Company. The locale of these eight finely wrought stories is Shady Hill, which could pass for many a commuting community in New York or Connecticut. The lawns and hedges are faultless, but there are cracks in the picture-window lives. In 0 Youth and Beauty!, a middle-aging onetime track star enlivens the soggy butt ends of party nights by running a hurdle race over the furniture. One night he falls and breaks his leg. Shortly after that, his wife accidentally shoots him, but not before the youth cult has robbed him of the will to live. In Just Tell...
Mason's performance, over and above his adept vaudeville bits, is faultless--a suave and perfectly controlled one, such as we often get from the best British actors and have usually got from Mason himself in his many movies from Seventh Veil through Julius Caesar to Cry Terror. He doesn't falter vocally for a moment, even when at the same time he has to give himself a complete shave with a straight razor or don a shirt with separate collar and French cuffs...
...from Broadway, but human nature creates a thick underbrush of sin and suffering. With the dull Cape Cods, the boring neighbors, the endless trivia of gossip, there is not much to turn to for excitement. Architect Larry Cole, who loves his wife and two youngsters after eight years of faultless married life, turns to Margaret Gault, a beautiful blonde whose husband spends a lot of time in an aircraft factory...
...takes a no-nonsense view of his own playing, grows rapturous when he thinks he is in form ("Faultless!"), but can be equally tough on himself when he thinks he is not ("Did you ever hear such lousy piano playing in your whole life?"). He can be equally hard on other players; e.g., he scorns Sergei Prokofiev's old recording of his own Third Concerto: "Sorry, but it's just not Russian...