Word: freshness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ballets Africains is primarily a man's affair, an exhibition of superbly masculine dances and rhythms. Virtuoso leaps, cartwheels, and spins follow in profusion, until the proceedings resemble some sort of idealized athletic event. Such is the spontaneity of the dancers that repetitions of these vigorous movements always seems fresh, newly conceived creations...
...play, is a monument to misguided fidelity. Mr. Stein has already been chewed out by O'Casey's admirers for associating himself with a huge job of lily-gilding. It seems to me, on the contrary, that what Juno needs is fewer drab, limp petals, and more bright fresh gilt...
...Cuban peso, on a par with the dollar for 44 years, turned soft; the foreign-money markets knocked it down to 75? or worse. Reason: nobody knew how many fresh green millions Dictator Fulgencio Batista and his cronies had lugged away. Castro's government ordered all $500 and $1,000 bills turned in, decreed that visitors to Cuba could bring in no more than 50 pesos. Canadian Gold Broker John Rogers (TIME, Dec. 15) reported that a Miami lawyer, acting for a pro-Batista exile, was trying to convert 500,000 pesos into bullion...
Whatever might be conventional in the story, Guinness makes fresh. He is successively tyrannical and repentent, modest and lecherous. Though his moods change quickly, there is always that vein of demonic, supremely British humor which is characteristic of Guinness. Yet this film has a certain scope which surpasses anything which Guinness has previously done. He couples his perceptive humor with Cary's unique character, and the result is almost monumental...
...Three automakers are deep in crash programs to get into the market with small, compact cars. As small European and U.S. cars grabbed 15% of the market, American Motors presented fresh evidence of how profitable the market is. American's President George Romney reported that in the fourth quarter of 1958 the company earned $21 million, or $3.56 a share, nearly as much as it cleared in the previous twelve months. Studebaker-Packard's Lark sold so well in the first ten days of January that the company for the fourth time has raised its production...