Word: lightly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Light Classical Music...
...given to the university police, two freshmen charged that the city police had attacked them following their arrest. "As we drove away," one reported, "the officer who had arrested me turned around and hit me in the mouth. When we got to the corner and stopped for a traffic light, he turned around and hit me again." His companion, they alleged, was later beaten when the car stopped in an alley behind the police station...
Soon after the last of its light was lost among the stars, instruments and computers indicated that the flight would be a success. Top speed achieved (24,700 m.p.h.) was slightly less than planned (24,985 m.p.h.), but it was still 200 m.p.h. more than was needed to escape from the earth. All instruments were working perfectly...
Somehow this Matterhorn of warmed-over cabbage is not without a certain grandeur, and Director Wolfgang Staudte (Murderers Among Us) has made the most of it. He has dissolved the greasy German sentimentalities of his story in a lovely bath of light and Agfacolor. He has reduced the rigid forms of the stage play to the flowing substance of cinema. And he has aroused his actors to some very fine performances. Actor Messemer skillfully suggests a man who is more than he seems, while Actor Biberti devastatingly portrays a man who is less than he thinks. As for Actress Schell...
...Must Die (French). A modern Calvary that glares with the raw light of an essential religious experience...