Word: good
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thanksgiving, went the argument, was convenient for the Christmas Card and affiliated industries, but worked hardships on the farmer who fattened his fowl. If the editorial writer were sufficiently steamed up, he might lose all sight of mince-meat, hard sauce, and associated victuals in his chase after a good solution...
...weekly coaches' luncheon in Dinty Moore's downtown emporium, Valpay called Houston, "as good a tackle as there is in the East" in his final talk to local sportswriters...
Well, the "experts" don't look quite so good this week. The first phase of Valpey's work is an accomplished fact and a successful one. The supposedly inexpert and demoralized Crimson players turned in consistently exciting football, scored in every game, and wound up by getting up off the floor to whip Brown and Yale...
...disappointing film because its core, the ballet, is not good. The fault lies in the filming, editing, and staging, not in the dancing. The camera is not expected to film a ballet entirely from fifth-row-center but neither should it show the movements of the dance as if they were viewed from an aerial kaleidoscope. The whole effect (except for the final bit at the church) is only that--effect. One gets the idea of Miss Shearer leaping through seas of rippling cellophane and grotesque faces, but there are hardly 20 continuous minutes of sustained dancing. Miss Shearer...
...solid entertainment because it tells the ever-fascinating tale of two lovers, parted by the demands of their separate muses. Love versus Art is always good, and since the setting for most of this story is backstage, the ingredients for an entertaining motion picture plot are all there...