Word: limpid
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...good that ought to make many an orthodox pulpit-pounding clergyman blush in envy. Yet the meaning of The Bell is muffled in final ambiguity, as the colony goes under in a tidal wave of newspaper scandal. With its strange but oddly exciting characters, its limpid prose, its sly wit and its ethical insight, The Bell unquestionably tolls, but it is never clear for whom and for what...
Neither will moviegoers. Director Huston's eye for the limpid beauty of Japan's gardens, houses, temples and harbors is outstandingly true, but this time his ear and his touch have gone sour...
Blessings on thee, TIME, for your beautiful review of the exquisite Father Panchali [Feb. 17]. When will these thick-skulled theater owners realize the cinemagoing public is fed to the teeth with limpid-eyed, loose-lipped...
...Davy was thrown in with a strong cast-Kurt Baum as Radames, Irene Dalis as Amneris. Leonard Warren as Amonasro-which might well have overpowered her. Tentative at first, Singer Davy warmed up as the evening progressed, sang her low tones with a throaty richness, her upper ones with limpid, free-flowing clarity. Her O patria mia was a triumph of yearning beauty. She lacked the sheer vocal force to carry over Baum's bellowing and Warren's thunderous tones, but she matched the acting of the veteran cast with a touchingly natural performance. All in all, Soprano...
...sunshine girl from France belts out a few sinewy numbers about love and things on the good, peasant earth. In one nontypical, eggheady fancy, Songstress Patachou serenades a charmer from outer space: "A white disk that flies over the city/ A very small, shy man with big, limpid eyes and a candid face has come forth/ If small, shy men regularly fall from nowhere in strangely oval engines, we won't be so lonely when we go to heaven...