Word: glaring
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...first to last, Champion is a tough-minded, penetrating character study which makes Midge neither an inhuman monster nor a whining victim of circumstances. It simply focuses a hard glare on his unreflective brutality, his arrogance and his bursts of self-interested decency. Much of its punch comes from the sensitive performances of Arthur Kennedy and Paul Stewart. Its final wallop it owes to Kirk Douglas, who fills out every corner of Kelly's unattractive pug with bulging assurance and conviction...
Director Reed also does well with his interpretation of the physical Bobby Henrey. For once, a child movie actor is made to act with all the awkward, sham-Dling, sleepwalking unawareness that normal children have when they are not caught in the glare of klieglights or an adult eye. The result is a subtle, absorbing drama of natural child behavior. A brilliant tour de force as entertainment, Idol could also be a useful object lesson on how to restore he Hollywood child to childhood...
Perhaps the most incredible scene in the picture is when Frank James, armed with a battered Winchester, confronts the man who shot his brother in the back. The most feared desperado of the Old West glares a vengeful glare at his quavering victim and snarls in deadly tones: "I could shoot you, Bob Ford. But I won't. You see, I happen to know that Cynthia loves not you but Kelley. When she marries you she'll feel sorry for you, but she'll still love Kelley." With, that he backs, catlike, out of the saloon, leaving the assassin...
This would prevent critical stoppages, remove the taint of polities which now rests on the injunction and presidential rulings, and encourage collective bargaining by bringing the parties into the glare of a public show-cause hearing. It would also offer labor and management the chance to learn that although compromises please no one, both sides can live under them, and it might slowly restore faith in the bargaining process...
Skiing is not everything and its about time the public realized it. Winter sports, as all the publicity releases from hundreds of Chambers of Commerce indicate, include plenty of exotic and semi-exotic pastimes, and they don't all require several hundred dollars worth of hickory staves, poles, anti-glare goggles and ten basic kinds of wax (from slow-slow to fast-fast...