Word: faultless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hallmark Hall of Fame: In a faultless presentation of the modern crime classic Dial M for Murder, Actor Maurice Evans again showed the British capacity for making the gentle art of homicide good clean fun. Once again, in a role he played on Broadway for some 500 performances, Evans decided that he preferred his wife's money to his wife (Rosemary Harris), then saw his plans go agley in a monstrous inversion of his custom-built plot. Brilliantly adapted for TV by its playwright, Frederick Knott, Dial M was a marvel of mobility, leaped from pub to club...
...girl waits loyally while the boy tries desperately but unsuccessfully to shake his crude, nearly crazed pursuer. In the book's final burst of violence, the sergeant moves rapidly to an inevitable end. Author Murphy's scenes of Army life abroad are nearly faultless (he served in France in 1953-54), and he sticks to his story with a relentlessness rare in a first novelist. He maintains enormous suspense, never lets his characters get out of character, and makes a genuine tragedy of an unsavory situation...
...biennial exhibition that opens at São Paulo, Brazil this week contained no less than 5,000 contemporary paintings, and of them perhaps one in ten might interest future ages. Standout shows within the show were a collection of pale and wan but faultless abstractions by Britain's Ben Nicholson, the weightless, rainbow fantasies of France's Marc Chagall, and 30 dim-dusty canvases by Italy's Giorgio Morandi. Nicholson and Chagall were considered stiff contenders for the 300,000-cruzeiro ($3,780) grand prize. After the usual frenzied politicking, the 17 international jurymen settled...
Kilty himself played Shaw, and Cavada Humphrey (who recently became Mrs. Kilty) the actress--both forceful and faultless performances, carefully staged with appropriate lighting and background music. The whole show pointed up the gravity of the theatre's loss between 1940 and 1950 of these letter-writers, two great hearts and grand souls...
...Nearly Faultless. Invasion goes on to do for Operation Anvil-Dragoon in the South of France what it does for Neptune-Overlord. The fighting for the southern beaches was a combat lark compared to the close call at Omaha. Naval support was close to perfection, and Morison, who saw service on no fewer than eleven vessels, thinks the South of France invasion was the "nearly faultless" large-scale operation of the entire war. One thing the U.S. fighting sailor will readily acknowledge, whatever his theater: no other fighting arm in World War II has found a historian with the flair...