Word: glows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite its phoniness-or perhaps because of it-this is just the sort of plot that appeals to ostentatious writers and directors. They glow with the prospect of putting seven people in a situation that is both temporally and spatially confined, and then developing their characters. The amount of character that can be developed when you have 104 minutes to split up among seven characters is at best small, and it is no wonder that for the most part the big names involved in Executive Suite are propping up card-board people...
...settings are a real wonder-perfect secondhand château; and the photography catches them in just that faintly too-dreamy glow in which they are seen by Mlle. Julie's girls. The acting is first rate. In scene after scene, Edwige Feuillere's performance as Julie rings like fine glass. Marie-Claire Olivia as Olivia does very well with a fairly monotonous part, and Simone Simon is real as the spoiled, catlike Cara. but perhaps does not display quite strongly enough the ravages of her moral mange...
Russia's leaders have flunked their doublethink lessons, according to Barrington Moore, Jr., Senior Research Fellow, of the Russian Research Center. In his new book, "Terror and Progress, USSR," Moore says that the Kremlin is trying to reconcile "the glow of official propaganda" with "daily experience for Soviet citizens" by resorting to "fairly typical bureaucratic cynicism...
...announced danger limits of the U.S. atomic proving grounds. Masuda and seven of his mates were pulling in the nets when the explosion went off. Said Masuda: "We saw strange sparkles and flashes of fire, sparks and fire as bright as the sun itself. The sky around them glowed fiery red and yellow. The glow went on for several minutes-perhaps two or three-and then the yellow seemed to fade away. It left a dull red, like a piece of iron cooling in the air. The blast came about five minutes later [with] the sound of many thunders rolled...
...type of show that can go on forever . . . Most people are married, most people have been in love, so it follows that most people will like our program, because here is real, recognizable domesticity." But there is no real drabness in this domestic life. Over everything is the rosy glow of a perpetual honeymoon. Explains Ackerman: "It isn't sex [that keeps the show going], though that's implied. What it is, really, is a certain quality of love and smooch...