Word: finer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...props were colored cardboard; and even his costumes were abstractions of Medieval clothing. Chris Avery and Robert Hoguet used the simplest imaginable lighting patterns, and somehow it all worked. Unbridled enthusiasm, which the best amateur productions usually boast as their highest achievement, here gave way to something much finer, style. Even if one understood only a few lines of the French, the movement on stage would have told the whole story and would have been, for its own sake, a delight to watch. Perhaps Morris's most brilliant touch was turning the glaring portrait of Mr. Boylston, which graces...
...anything, getting finer press notices abroad than at home. So great is European interest in President Kennedy that editors are pressing their Washington correspondents for an unprecedented flow of stories, dealing not only with Kennedy and his policies and advisers but with his family, his entertaining (the French welcomed the serving of champagne at the White House), and his cultural life...
...construction of a series of big power dams on the Columbia, beginning with Grand Coulee, did men really begin to tap the Northwest's great industrial potential. The new treaty opens the way to further development of that potential, promises to make the Columbia River region a finer place "for to sett up a Factory," than Mate Boit could have imagined...
...like abstract expressionist, Jean-Paul Riopelle. Bonnard. Villon, Matisse, Picasso, Leger, Poliakoff and Rouault are all represented. One of Paul Klee's best-known works. Seven O'Clock over the Roofs, looks like a toy town built with brown and greenish blocks. Oslo had never seen a finer group of Juan Crises, nor had it been exposed to Surrealist Max Ernst...
From all these horrors the hero is saved by-yessiree-piano lessons. After seven or eight years of them he sends trills up the spine of a young socialite (Jean Seberg), who thinks he is a genius and introduces him to the finer things of life-like, say, her penthouse. Happy Ending...