Word: grand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...competent though not ideal in the title role. Suzanne Cloutier's Desdemona emerges rather colorless, mostly because her part has been so greatly cut, including the whole Willow Song scene. In places, the synchronization of the speech sound track is imprecise. Nevertheless, the film well deserved its Cannes Festival Grand Prize. It will outrage the Shaksperian pedant; but it will reward those who can appreciate Welles' powerfully fascinating display of technical virtuosity and unorthodox genius...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was small, rachitic, poor and struggling. His music was grand, architecturally superb, rich and blissful. The contrast between Mozart the man and Mozart the musician never ceases to amaze. Says Bruno Walter, one of Mozart's great musical interpreters: "His personality has remained strangely remote to the world...
Today the Folies has acquired a mid-century tone. It takes Director Derval ten months and $430,000 to put on a new revue. The stage is only 20 feet deep, but it holds a swimming pool, a treadmill and a grand staircase. For each revue, 1,200 costumes are used, and at times dancers are unconcealed in as much as 60 yards of diaphanous veils...
With the freeing of all IBM and A.1 .& T. patents, the brave new world of electronics-in which both specialize-looked last week like the Oklatioma Territory on the eve of the grand land rush...
December, 1954: A Federal Grand Jury indicts them...