Word: finests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although these these flaws keep it from sharing Kane's greatness, Mr. Arkadin remains brilliant. The work is alternately baffling and lucid, and should be see. Welles is certainly one of the finest contemporary directors; his camera work makes the French "nouvelle vague" group look amateurish. One particularly effective scene shows the grandeur of a penitentes procession in Barcelona. The black-robed figures passing in torchlight surpass the processions in Ivan the Terrible, for Welles is always free of the episodic tableau photography that marred Eisenstein's films...
...finest features of the House is the Junior Common room...
...rejected almost continuously by every U.S. show place, from the annual exhibitions of the National Academy to the famous Armory Show of 1913. Then, in 1917, he was accepted by an exhibition of independents, and French Painter Marcel Duchamp, the sensation of the Armory, declared an Eilshemius nude the finest painting of the 2,000 in the show. Artists such as Painter Joseph Stella and Sculptor Gaston Lachaise took up the Eilshemius banner...
...court, his lawyer described him as "the finest type of Californian." He had been president or chairman of ten companies, a director of 16, a member of the best clubs. But last week San Francisco's backslapping, bearlike Virgil David Dardi, 57, paced nervously in Manhattan's West Street jail, unable to raise $100,000 bail. He had just been sentenced to seven years in prison for his part in one of the most ingeniously bizarre stock swindles in modern history-after the longest criminal trial in U.S. Federal Court history (TIME, Feb. 22). The activities of Dardi...
...bystander exclaimed that it looked like the varsity as Winthrop's finest wrestled the Eliot Elephants to a 16-16 tie in the House Intramural Championships yesterday...