Word: hilt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Siepi sang his fourth role at the Met: Colline in Puccini's La Boheme. Said Bachelor Siepi, with relief: "Finally I have a chance to play a young man. Mi facio bello! [I shall make myself beautiful]." He played and sang his small role to the hilt, and when it was over he collected the same stout applause he has been getting all season...
...must make sacrifices and get ready to fight again. He would have to do it while his own country's councils were divided about his task, while his country's forces were suffering a humiliating defeat in Korea-a fact that Russian propaganda was exploiting to the hilt. He would have to build the defenses of an area that lay open to the Red army, and would remain so until it was armed...
...Sola's testimony began collapsing immediately. Instead of backing him to the hilt, as he had promised, his divorced wife contradicted him completely and added that he was a man of violently unstable emotions. Two New Yorkers, described by De Sola as ex-Communists who could verify his charges, also contradicted him. Fifteen ex-members of the John Reed Club denied ever knowing an Anna Rosenberg. An imposing set of endorsements of Mrs. Rosenberg poured in from George Marshall, Dwight Eisenhower, Bernard Baruch and many others...
They play the mysteries of darkest Africa to the hilt. The camera pans over hundreds of blank and weirdly painted native faces; the soundtrack features native drums, beating endlessly; and there are cannibals, shricking animals, and a full complement of snakes, spiders, and other slimy things with legs which crawl. Since the majority of the actors are real natives, their own inscrutability adds to the general air of mystery...
...guests at the Regal Hotel are eccentric to the hilt. If each were not portrayed so expertly, the film would degenerate into a tedious gallery of oddities; but the acting is splendid, and one cannot help enjoying this collection, incredible...