Word: flawless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...topped all but one of the international competitors from Britain. Ireland. Canada and the U.S. for the Royce A. Drake Memorial Trophy. In the jump-off, with some of the bars raised to 5 ft. 3 in. (Foxhunter has cleared 7 ft.), the partners again put on a flawless performance to win cleanly...
...deposed. If I accept, as millions of other Western Europeans do, that America is destined to be the mainstay of freedom in this null century world, it does not follow that American institutions are perfect, that Americans are invariably well behaved, or that the American way of life is flawless. It only means that in one of the most terrible conflicts in human history, I have chosen my side, as all will have to choose sooner or later, and propose to stick by the side I have chosen through thick & thin, hoping to have sufficient courage hot to lose heart...
...never that sudden overflow whereby a comedy of situation rips wildly into farce, or a comedy of manners lurches hilariously toward madness. The play remains part of a fashionable tradition which slices its amusement as paper-thin as its sandwiches, and-for success-demands a special type of flawless acting. In London, with Robert Morley, Joan Tetzel and David Tomlinson, The Little Hut presumably had it; but on Broadway an uninspired cast makes for unamusing castaways...
...performances of Gerard Philipe and Micheline Presle. Every expression and intonation is eloquent if the anguish of a boy struggling to cope with a man's problem or of a woman too old for her lover. Though the minor portrayals, particularly of the boy's tolerant father are flawless, it is the interpretations of Francois and Marthe that endow Devil in the Flesh with a beauty and power hard to forget...
...best when it ditches its contrived plot and concentrates on hard-hitting scenes of desert warfare pieced out with real newsreel shots (e.g., a Commando raid on a Nazi ammunition dump, Rommel's tanks attacking under cover of a sandstorm). Unusual linguistic touch: Actor Mason, who spoke flawless English as Rommel in The Desert Fox, this time affects a rich Teutonic accent...