Word: gem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...choices were excellent, ranging from the chromatic Forlorne Hope, in which Bream showed he could "pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow," through the expressive Sir John Langton's Pavan--the finest gem of the evening--to the syncopated and almost jazzy Earl of Essex's Galliard...
...speed. Sleek and sturdy, white-hulled Columbia was clearly the fastest boat throughout the elimination trials to pick a defender for the America's Cup. Last week she won two of three races from 19-year-old Vim, her final opponent, and the selection committee judged Columbia the gem of the ocean, fit to meet Britain's Sceptre this weekend in the start of the four-out-of-seven series that will be raced alternately over triangular and windward-leeward courses ten miles off Newport...
...Italian classic. The comparison, apparently based on the similarity of titles, is unfortunate. The two films move in opposite directions-Shoeshine despairingly toward the lower depths, Boot Polish wistfully toward the light. More importantly, their coupling might becloud the fact that Boot Polish is a nearly flawless little gem of a fable that glows with its own brilliance, without need of outside illumination...
Masks & Truncheons. A many-turreted complex of buildings perched upon the "Mountain of Light" overlooking the grimy industrial city of Czestochowa, the monastery not only houses the gem-studded image of the Madonna ("The Holy Mother-Queen of Poland") that legend says was painted by St. Luke; it was also the great fortress famed for holding out against the conquering Swedes in 1655. No sooner had the church-state agreement of 1956 been made than pilgrims began flocking by the thousands once again to the shrine that had come to mean national independence. But even more disturbing to the government...
...good day for Grandmother Boston when the high wooden walls of Puritanism can be wedged apart far enough to let such an amoral gem of a film play at the Kenmore. Not that it's pornographic. Not a bit. It proves the point that sex is an excellent subject for art and comedy without having to be crude or blatantly erotic. Although it is, really, all about sex, it has none of the relatively clumsy Hollywood eroticism of the writhing Presley genre, or even of recent French letdowns, such as And God Created Woman...