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...acting, or speech-making, in Q-V is in keeping with the Guestian level of the dialogue. Robert Taylor, as the Latin hero, runs the emotional gamut, with his accustomed impassive Cherokee stare. Deborah Kerr, the titian-haired heroine, brings to her role the solemn uncomprehending dogmatism of a Radcliffe freshman discussing the subjects in question--sex and religion. But the prize ham of the evening goes to Peter Ustinov, who makes such a hash out of Nero that you wind up feeling sorry...
...film's characters run the social gamut from the count to the streetwalker, but stick to the same single track. The episodes vary in length, mood and quality. The longest and best, strung together midway in the film, shine with a brilliance that the rest of the movie cannot match. These catch the essence of three classic situations: the willing maid (Simone Simon) and the nervously eager master (Daniel Gelin); the master and the other man's wife (Danielle Darrieux) who wants to be coaxed into infidelity; the faithless wife inciting and lulling the suspicion of her sanctimonious...
...Gamut. The U.S. has largely forgotten (as Hearst apparently did in his latter days) that a half century ago, he was regarded by some as a Socialist radical, and by many as a friend of the people. He muckraked the trusts, exposed Standard Oil for bribing Senators, campaigned for the eight-hour day (which Hearst properties ignored), woman suffrage, public ownership-and, of course, for circulation. In 1901 he was hanged in effigy as an inciter of McKinley's assassination, but a year later he was elected to a seat (rarely to be occupied) in Congress, having...
...more than a dozen clashing political parties, at least two of which (the Stalinist White Flag Communists, the Trotskyite Red Flag Communists) are still in armed rebellion against the government. Besides, thousands of Karen tribesmen are waging guerrilla war against government forces. Legal opposition parties run the gamut from the frankly pro-Russian Workers & Peasants Party to the pro-British Burma Union Party, which advocates a return to the Commonwealth. Somewhere between stands Premier Thakin* Nu's Anti-Fascist People's Friendship League, a vaguely socialist group whose declared aim is "stability...
...years since his mother switched him from piano to flute ("so I would stand out"), Willson has just about run the musical gamut. At 17, he was playing flute and piccolo in Sousa's band; at 21 he was tootling the same instruments in the New York Philharmonic-Symphony under Toscanini. He started conducting when a bandleader friend offered to perform his Parade Fantastique, but told him he would have to lead it himself...