Word: highlight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Where the film departs from the stage production is in the emphasis of the direction. Perhaps to make up for the confinement of the setting, Elia Kazan set his cameramen and actors to highlight every eccentricity in the cast. Brando responded to this kind of direction by developing an overgrowth of quirks, brilliantly freakish, that dominate every scene in which he enters. As he appears before fastidious Blanche for the first time, the camera-eye stares fascinated at a huge sweat-stain on his T-shirt, just above the area where he is scratching himself; for half a minute...
...them are sold, by mistake, to a party of British schoolgirls. Guinness & Holloway, fearful that the souvenirs may get back to the baffled authorities, chase after the little girls and then, in turn, become the object of a nationwide manhunt, slapsticky with pratfalls, hairbreadth escapes and colliding police cars. Highlight: Guinness eluding his pursuers by fading invisibly into a throng of Britons, all identical in sack coats, bowler hats and umbrellas...
Self-Examining. The highlight is the Tuesday lecture given by Ai Szu-chi. Sometimes he is there in person; at other times he is heard on records. These lectures, the only ones given at the university, last as a rule from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. The gist of Ai's "philosophy" is contained in a book of his called Historical Materialism, which has become the virtual Bible of hsueh hsi. (Sample excerpts: "Communism is the exquisite acme of man's social evolution . . . The capitalistic world is being pushed into the grave step by step...
...Senate Crime Investigating Committee last March, Rudolph Halley has become a political candidate (for president of the New York City Council), a Hearst columnist and a TV actor. In Crime Syndicated, his first sponsored show, Halley takes his audience on a Cook's tour of the underworld. Highlight: a dramatized sketch about dope peddlers, which came to the surprising conclusion that crime does pay, showed how a Government witness was intimidated by hoodlums in court and then murdered before she could testify again...
...family and a few close friends gathered in Balmoral Castle, Scotland, to help Princess Margaret celebrate her 21st birthday. The highlight of her coming-of-age party: the cutting of the royal cake, a 30-pound, twelve-sided baker's delight, each side decorated with a sign of the zodiac, the main panel showing Leo, the Princess' own sign, and the top iced with the pattern of her personal standard and planted with 21 silver candles, silver roses and Scotch thistles. Among the guests: Billy Wallace, Lord Ogilvy and the Earl of Dalkeith-her three favorite suitors...