Word: flaws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unfortunately-and this is the show's one flaw-Morley doubles as director, and can not keep the total level of the cast at the peak that is possible. Even he would be better with objective direction, responding to the other actors and giving more vitality got his singing. And certainly Edward Stearns, as the Priate King, would improve. Although his deep and pleasant voice conies across the footlights with force and clarity, he is at times wooden in his acting, as though self-conscious. Luckily, he often shakes off his frozen, arms-akimbo stance and really enlivens his fine...
...does not need to be a strategist or a scientist to see the flaw in the air generals' argument. We might rely exclusively on the Strategic Air Command if we had a fair chance of striking the first blow. But it is assumed by the Joint-Chiefs of Staff themselves that the first blow, if struck at all, will be struck by the enemy. If we have no air defense, we thus concede to the enemy the opportunity to devastate our cities and our industry, and perhaps to cripple the Strategic Air Command itself by destroying its bases...
...must reluctantly, however, indicate one minor flaw-the historian surely meant to say, not Magna Charta, but Magna Chortle...
...movie's one annoying flaw was the ending, an obvious concession to the movie code...
...nicest thing about "The Wonderful Country," besides Lea's own illustrations, is that it's all plot and takes around four hours to read. If you can judge westerns by the usual criteria of literary excellence, then the book's worst flaw is that the reader frequently doesn't know who is killing whom, when, where, and why. Of course this might make little difference to the affilcionado, but I'm one and I like to know what is going...