Word: glitteringly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...size and glitter, "the biggest picture of all time" was not stirring the expected commotion in Rome. The staggering preparations and frantic bustle out at MGM's "Hollywood on the Tiber" were only mildly amazing to modern Romans. In the wineshops, the talk was of the women telephone operators out at Cinedtta who these days answer with a cheery: "Good morning. Quo Vadis...
Shudders & Secrets. Writing "as objectively as possible," Gunther is obviously too dazzled by the Roosevelt glitter to do a balanced job. Even when he concedes F.D.R.'s political deviousness and lack of candor, he is much more interested in finding excuses for them than in showing their damaging consequences. They "arose not so much out of duplicity but from . . . agreeableness . . . and his marked distaste for hurting friends...
...bower have inspired romantic writers for ages, gets only cold glances from the author. The story of the jealous queen's proffer of the dagger and poison bowl is discarded; for Rosamond, "flower of the world," died young in pious retirement. Still, Miss Kelly captures both the glitter and the solidity of the Middle Ages...
...role, most plays in book form are dull reading. Without props or actors to create illusion and vitality, they make an intolerable demand on the average reader's imagination. A Shakespeare becomes an exception through an excess of sheer creative power, a Shaw through saucy verbal glitter, but so far there has been just one Shakespeare and one Shaw. With The Cocktail Party, T. S. Eliot moved very close to the select circle of playwrights who can be read with pleasure. With The Lady's Not for Burning, Britain's Christopher Fry (TIME, April 3) edges past...
...Astonished Heart (J. Arthur Rank; Universal-International) returns Britain's Noel Coward to the screen in the double role of scenarist and star.' For a while, it seems cause for mild celebration. Coward still handsomely fills a Mayfair drawing room with the glitter of verbal bric-a-brac. But when he begins using the stagy artifice of his comedies in behalf of a plot that combines half-baked psychiatry with bogus tragedy, even his admirers are likely to blush...