Word: flawless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crime, as in theater, it's not just a masterful conception but also a flawless execution that counts. Unfortunately for Softly Stealing, staged in the Kirkland House Junior Common Room with a case composed almost entirely of students from the House, the execution is not always quite right. The main problem is that while the interdependence of words and music is one of the major triumphs of the play, the tendency of the less experienced members of the cast to rely on the others clearly...
...Score in The Final Half-Minute: A fitting way to end a flawless game. It took a super pass from transplanted soccer star Lyman Bullard (via Gene Purdy) and a seeing-eye snapshot from George Hughes to find the hole in Skidmore's dike. Hughes typified the emotion of the contest as the usually calm scoring machine went tapioca after firing in the winner...
...Crime of Monsieur Lange. Other Renoir films draw the devoted back for different reasons--The Rules of the Game for its seering social satire, Grand Illusion for its flawless humanity--but this film ranks as the French director's most endearing work. For once Renior lets us unabashedly sympathize with his protagonist, a dreamy, doe-eyed printer who stays up nights writing hack Westerns. The corrupt, sybaritic publishing boss closes his eyes to the printer's serial, "The Arizona Kid," and monopolizes the woman who the poor dreamer worships from afar. But Renoir slips a little social message into...
...Welles himself summed up the weekend perfectly, thirty years ago. He was on the set of The Third Man, giving his flawless performance as Harry Lime. The movie's producer, Alexander Korda, was getting on his nerves. Orson reportedly said to him, "I wish the Pope would make you a cardinal, Alex." "Why a cardinal?" Kroda wondered. "Because then," Welles retorted, "we'd only have to kiss your ring...
...University of Maryland and become a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, where he has produced a series of critical analyses of almost every federal department. Colleagues regard him as witty and gregarious, particularly after a few beers, when he can be persuaded to sing Lilli Marlene in flawless German...