Word: finest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old play may need a new director. Ex-Director Georg Lang, 6 ft. 5 in., whose enormous hands produce some of the world's finest woodcarving, became a Nazi in 1934. Later, when the village's propaganda chief went to war, Georg made himself useful designing Nazi posters and building backdrops for visits of party bigwigs...
...horror that haunts this valley is a disease called verruga (literal translation: warts). It is transmitted by an almost invisible sandfly (Phlebotomus verrucarum), smaller than a mosquito, which bites only at night. Penetrating the finest netting and seams in clothing, the insect infects its victim with a parasite (Bartonella bacilliformis) that destroys red blood cells, produces a high fever and often kills within a few days...
Navigation. In a tiny country 4½ air hours southeast of Miami, even as decisive a will as the Benefactor's must reckon with the U.S., and Trujillo has done it. He has built one of the Hemisphere's finest hotels in his capital to convince U.S. visitors that he "runs the country like a U.S. corporation." Many a tourist has gone away impressed. But U.S. hemispheric policy, which has tolerated Trujillo despite its icy hostility to dictators, is in a state of flux. When it takes more certain form, Trujillo may hear unpleasant tidings...
...actor." Funds in the Guinness family (no kin to the stout fellas from Ireland) being tight, when Alec finished Roborough School in the bottomless '30s, he took a ?2-a-week apprenticeship in a London advertising agency. He studied acting at nights and (in the finest tradition of the theater) lived in a garret for a year, mostly on borrowed jam sandwiches and card board soles...
Monsieur Verdoux has serious shortcomings, both as popular entertainment and as a work of art. But whatever its shortcomings, it is one of the most notable films in years. It is not the finest picture Chaplin ever made, but it is certainly the most fascinating...