Word: leans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...might reduce many a strong man to sentimentality-Schumann's Cello Concerto. Under the pale lights, Starker's sunken cheeks looked drained of blood as he bent to the romantic work, but he never bowed to its maudlin potentialities. His tone was neither too plump nor too lean, but pure, tense and silken. He sculpted the long, melodic lines precisely, restraining himself where a lesser musician might have whipped up some phony passion, then letting his instrument sing passionately, when passion was called for. Next day Critic Roger Dettmer wrote in the American that Starker "has grown from...
...past eight years, he has lived at Antibes, France, a lean, soldierly man who rises promptly at 6 a.m. for a two-hour walk before breakfast and surprises the Riviera crowd by never setting foot in the local bistros. For the past three years, Kazantzakis has been a front-running candidate for the Nobel Prize. Like Italian Playwright Luigi Pirandello, a past Nobel winner, and Spanish Philosopher Ortega y Gasset, he is far from the operatic Mediterranean type; with them, he shares a dry, winy brilliance of mind. Under the harsh sun of Crete, neither brooding Teutonic mysticisms nor romantic...
...Love Story" is by far the most outstanding piece. Its temper is unusual for the Advocate, whose contributors often seem bent on merely displaying to the world the sensitivity of their souls. Ratte neither sinks into a morass of hypersensitive depression, nor, though he is highly imaginative, does he lean on the grotesque. The story can perhaps best be described as a complete reversal of the typical Saturday Evening Post romance...
...year perennial when the New York Film Critics agreed with the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures in naming Marty the best movie of the year. Other choices by the critics: best actor, Ernest Borgnine in Marty; best actress, Anna Magnani in The Rose Tattoo; best director, David Lean for Summertime; best foreign-language film, a tie between Italy's Umberto D. and France's Diabolique...
Summertime. Just one of those things, but it happens in lustered Venice to Katharine Hepburn and Rossano Brazzi, and Britain's Director David Lean is one of the best (TIME, June...