Word: gem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proclaimed necessity for keeping in touch with the people gave Communist Finance Minister Li Hsien-nien a beautiful opening last week. Government workers in the lower levels, he announced in what deserves to be preserved as a gem of Communist thinking, will soon have their wages cut so as to "enable them to live a life even closer to the masses...
...Poet's next rendez-vous is a gem. With a graceful, superbly theatrical manner, Lee Jeffries, perfectly cast as The Actress, goes to bed with the poet. "That's better than acting in damn silly plays," she breathes soon after their blackout. Still brilliant in her next scene, she is unfortunately confronted with a gawking performance by John Wolfson, who seems uneasy in his role as a slightly dimwitted, uneasy Count. The final scene, The Count and the Prostitute, is a step downward from the style of Miss Jeffries...
...that he was Lanza's second singing teacher, Weede, whose Metropolitan Opera debut finally came at 33, shook his head sadly, allowed that neither he nor anyone else had taught Lanza much. "Lanza had what I believe to be the greatest vocal gift of his decade-but that gem may never...
...Hauges, who had free Government housing and low living expenses, put in 70% of their salaries to build their collection. Says Gratia: "We were always broke." But today Victor Hauge is the proud possessor of the collection's gem, an ink-on-silk painting by Northern Sung Dynasty Painter Li Lung-mien, so rare that the Japanese government has declared it a national treasure. At their home in Falls Church, Va., Osborne and Gratia can trot out genuine Ming dishes for company. Says Gratia: "We don't regret a single thing we bought-only the things we didn...
...performance as the reporter clearly underlines the newsman's disgust at the facts he uncovers. The supporting cast is also excellent, without any exception. Keenan Wynn gives a particularly fine performance as a sardonic and unprincipled executive, and former television comedian Ed Wynn presents something of a small acting gem as the faintly comic radio station owner who gave Fuller his start in the business. But everybody who worked on The Great Man deserves some compliments for their taste and restraint. They have put together a very good little picture. --THOMAS K. SCHWABACHER