Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Opposite him, as the French King Charles VI, Langham put Gratien Gélinas, the ranking clown of French-Canadian musical revues. Members of Montreal's theatrical corps, schooled in the French acting tradition, were brought to Stratford to people the French scenes. The play was a solid hit, with Shakespeare's French and English contrasts made twice as vivid as a one-language company could play them. The effect in the battle scenes, one critic noted, "was of whole armies feeling their way toward battle with radically different sets of nerves...
...fresh festival hit," cheered the Montreal Star, "and, probably more important, a significant step forward in intercultural understanding...
...million in loans from banks and insurance companies, the project has already paid off handsomely for Zeckendorf. In 1950 his realty firm, Webb & Knapp, put up $1,500,000 to buy a 60% interest in Roosevelt Field Inc., paying an average $9 a share. By last year the shares hit $45 on the American Stock Exchange and were split...
...girl, girl and guardian, brother and brother, cousin and cousin, landlord and tenant, illiterate manual laborer and cultured lawyer, and so on. And if this probing embarrasses the spectators by forcing them to associate what they see with their own family experiences, so much the better; for "I've hit the inner truth," Miller once said, "only when I embarrass myself...
...Bold and the Brave. A war film with ideas that hit as hard as bullets; with Wendell Corey, Don Taylor, Mickey Rooney (TIME, April...