Word: leans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Oliver Twist. Director David (Great Expectations) Lean's brilliant adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel; with Alec Guinness, John Howard Davies, Robert Newton (TIME...
...lean winter of 1775-76, when good generals were as scarce as good shoes in the Continental Army, John Adams, delegate to the Continental Congress, picked up his quill, penned an unusual tribute to one of them. "The Congress have seen such a necessity of an able commander in Canada, as to destine you for that most arduous service . . . We want you at N. York-we want you at Cambridge-we want you in Virginia...
Moreover, a fat lean must accompany any mission because Iran will need some $650 million to do an adequate job. Much of this would come from concession royalties, internal loans, and more efficient tax collecting; but for the rest, Iran would depend on the United States...
Unusually flexible in his cutting and camera movement, Lean has translated some of the novel's long passages (e.g., Oliver's birth and workhouse ordeal, Bill Sikes's remorse over the murder of Nancy) into virtually wordless sequences of visual storytelling at its imaginative best. He has molded most of his actors in the image of the Cruikshank drawings and handled them with the controlled flamboyance of Novelist Dickens himself. If any one threatens to outshine the others, it is Alec (The Cocktail Party) Guinness in the horrendous make-up of Fagin. To the character...
...Fables, Shaw has pulled himself together to add one more preface to his long and brilliant stock. It is entertaining, but not too entertaining to obscure the fact that perhaps the only things Shaw consistently believed in were himself and that lean deity, Creative Evolution, a sort of mixture of Lilith and Mrs. Sidney Webb. Apart from that he never made a joke which he did not sooner or later pass off as truth, and never stated a truth that he did not eventually turn into a joke...