Word: grass
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...writer's pride demands that I deny to you that the script of Splendor in the Grass [Oct. 13] was "heavily edited" by Director Elia Kazan. This frequent criticism is leveled against him unfairly...
...friend of Elia Kazan. He has directed a play of mine.-Perhaps I am, therefore, disqualified from commenting on your critic's incredibly cute and vulgar personal attack on him in the review of Splendor in the Grass...
...many Southern cities have been far above the top daily limit, the PHS is not alarmed because iodine 131 has a short half life* of eight days. When the Russians finish their current test series, most of the accumulated iodine 131-whether in milk, in air or on grass-will vanish in a few weeks. Other short-lived isotopes in the tropospheric fallout will die off also...
...Jean Renoir's Le Crime de M. Lange, and that was Jean Renoir's Rules of the Game, Renoir, at his best, directs with a masterful command of camera, acting, plot, dialogue, in short, all the cinematic virtues. At his worst, he may produce a Picnic on the Grass, but this rather insipid fete champetre should not keep anyone from seeing such a complex and powerful masterpiece as Le Crime...
...ineffable cliche quality of Inge's screenplay, it would not be possible to overlook Natalie Wood's abysmal acting. If Sandra Dee stands at the nadir of movie acting, then Miss Wood sits on her shoulders. Her only commendable scenes are those in which she runs through the grass or jumps up and down gleefully with her girlfriends. When it comes to words or sentences, she does not succeed so well...