Word: faults
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...voice on the sound track (a hangover from Citizen Kane) sometimes makes his Macbeth resemble an unmannerly uproar in a coal mine. The on-again-off-again use of a Scotch burr by some of the actors, including the star, does not help; but the production's main fault is that Welles and his leading lady (Jeanette Nolan) play their roles, for most of 95 minutes, at the top of their lungs...
...fault, however, was not with science. The electric current at U.N. was weak because of a strike (called by the Communists) of French electrical workers...
...team can go either up or down following a horrendous defeat. It can figure that the upset was merely its own fault and then finish up its season in fine style. Or, like last year's Harvard team after the Virginia disaster, it can figure it just isn't any good after all and end its season in spathy...
...Mechanical Man in elected," Beer added, "it won't be the fault of Truman." Nodding to Young Republicans present he conceded that "the Republic won't come to an end if the Mechanical Man wins...
Said the Daily Telegraph: "The familiar tunes [as] handled by Britten . . . may be hated by traditionalists . . . But what may seem like impudence is really the artistic assurance of a musical creator who knows exactly what he wants and how to get it with disarming brilliance . . . There is hardly a fault of style, and scarcely a moment's violence is done to Gay's satire." The Observer's Charles Stuart was more lyrical: "... I have been wakening up every morning with new filaments of the exquisite score running through my . .. head. There, I think, you have a sure...