Word: flaws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...major flaw in the Crimsons's performance--and it was a glaring, disturbing flaw--was its pass defense. Colgate receivers consistently outran the Crimson secondary; they hauled in a dozen of Dick Lalla's 22 passes for a total of 178 yards...
...novel proves that British films can overstate their famous technique of understatement. Depicting five years of war on board a British corvette escorting conveys, the Cruel Sea dampens even highly dramatic episodes with a monotonous restraint that rarely varies the emotional pitch of the film. Only in the flaw less performance of Jack Hawkins as the captain of an inexperienced crew is there a gauge of the intensity of each experience. In spite of Hawkins, the two hour film often seems as endless as the ocean which hides the subs the corvette seeks...
...diplomats who thronged the glittering reception hall in the great palazzo. Gravely smiling, she greeted, in half-a-dozen languages, each baron and ambassador, each banker's lady and minister of state with the correct slight nod and carefully chosen words. There seemed to be not a flaw in the well-ordered proceedings. Then the camera peeped impertinently beneath the princess' royal skirts. It revealed the awful fact that she had slipped off one of her high-heeled shoes and, standing in perfect balance on one foot, was happily, restfully wriggling the toes of the other...
...lure of the Delaware Valley is threefold: good rail and water transportation, plenty of labor, and proximity to the biggest market in the U.S.-the 21 million people who live within a radius of 100 miles of Philadelphia. For Big Steel, there has been one flaw: it built at Morrisville with the idea that ore boats from its huge Venezuela iron deposit could come right up the river to the plant. But so far, it has been able to get only smaller ships upriver, with Congress holding back on the money needed to dredge the channel the last 30 miles...
...Nicholas fades away into her kitchen, one son retires to a private world of noisy chemical experiments, another runs away from home. Even on his sickbed, Mr. Nicholas dominates and blights everyone within his reach. The book has one major flaw: none of the other characters is strong enough to stand up to father for a minute. As a result, Novelist Hinde loses a dramatic chance to test him against any kind of opposition. But Mr. Nicholas, in his walkover, is as believable as a bad dream in which everything is both distorted and true at the same time...