Word: larking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Introduction of one more account of the events leading to the burning of Joan of Arc involves considerable audacity. Yet the current version, The Lark, justifies the attempt. With beguiling Julie Harris in the title role, The Lark is a startling, modernistic interpretation. More important, it is conceived from a distinctly American view-point. Lillian Hellman has skillfully adapted Jean Anouiln's material into a revealing portrait of a high spirited Joan...
...World technique is not confined to acting in The Lark. Jo Miclziner's light-settings provide a pervarding modernistic tone. Although the effects are flashy, they are never offensive. In lieu of sets, Mr. Mielziner may have as many as three clashing colors splashed on stage at one time, but he never distracts attention from the players. Leonard Bernstein's incidental choral music, of which much is modal, seems equally impressive...
...That was a nice day," Joan concludes, recalling the Dauphin's coronation. Inspired writing, acting, graphic art and music have been combined magnificently to make The Lark not only a nice, but a thoroughly refreshing day for the American theater...
...sons, Clinton, 14, and Daniel, 9. Then handsome Jack Peurifoy and the boys got into his robin's-egg-blue Ford Thunderbird and headed back to the Thai beach resort of Hua Hin, 85 miles southwest of Bangkok, for lunch. It was a holiday outing, a lark for the boys, and just the occasion for Peurifoy to open up with his prized Thunderbird. He gunned it up to 70 m.p.h. and left his four-jeep police escort behind. They were used...
...Grace gives Gary a piece of fried chicken. This is the sort of meal Director Alfred (Rear Window) Hitchcock cooked up for his troupe in the south of France last year. Its a little overdone, but it's still fried chicken- or maybe even just a lark. Those ingenious instants of terror for which Hitchcock is so well known are missing. But there remains the familiar Hitchcock pace and wit, the easy salability of such stars as Kelly and Grant, solid supporting performances by Jessie Royce Landis and John Williams, and lingering views of the Riviera...