Word: foremost
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...best, Director Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, Argentina's foremost film maker, studies his homeland with an unblinking poet's eye that invites comparison to Antonioni and Bergman. He deftly juggles modish effects, melding sun and skin into the languid what-next boredom of a summer afternoon or exposing the backbone of a scene with the blinding suddenness of a flashbulb popping in the dark...
Married. George Pember Darwin, 36, researcher for a London electronics company, great-grandson of Evolutionist Charles Darwin; and Angela Huxley, 24, niece of the late Author Aldous and great-granddaughter of Biologist Thomas Huxley, foremost champion of Darwin's The Origin of Species; in an Anglican ceremony; in London...
...celebrated French murder case of 1933, which also inspired Jean Genet's drama The Maids. Selected by Andre Malraux as France's entry in the 1963 Cannes film festival, it arrives in the U.S. trailing breathless encomiums from Jean-Paul Sartre ("Cinema has given us its foremost tragedy"), and Simone de Beauvoir ("One of the greatest films I have ever seen"). Since such illustrious, finely honed sensibilities are not easily ignored, the ordinary moviegoer probably ought to read what has been written about the movie instead of actually sitting through it. Only cultists will want to take...
Fortunately, no man is better prepared to create the atmosphere-and provide the leadership-than the new Premier. A career bureaucrat, Sato was one of the chief architects of Japan's miraculous industrial expansion. In the important ministry of trade and commerce he became one of the foremost exponents of Japan's increased international involvement. Although his rival for the premiership, Ichiro Kono, won worldwide acclaim as the top organizer most responsible for the success of the Tokyo Olympics, Sato really had the inside track. He has been Ikeda's heir apparent for more than four years...
Sidey is not purposefully undertaking a re-evaluation of Kennedy. Some later essayists did, foremost among them Tom Wicker, whose "Kennedy Without Tears" first appeared in Esquire this summer and is now a book. Wicker attacks the basis of the Kennedy legend at some length, and tries to set up a different Kennedy: a man who was not forever moving forward, but a skeptic, full of humor at his own foibles and others...