Word: limpidities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from the weapons ship Albemarle to LSM 60, Senator Carl Hatch got in a plug for his home state by chalking on its side "Made in New Mexico." Through a specially designed opening in the tank-deck of the landing ship, the caisson was lowered several fathoms into the limpid waters of Bikini lagoon. Then all except a few specialists headed out to open water...
Voice and gesture exchange Shakespeare's munificence for subtlety, but re main subtly stylized. Faces, by casting, by close-up and reaction, give Shakespeare's lines a limpid, intimate richness of interpretation which has never been available to the stage. One of the prime joys of the picture is the springwater freshness and immediacy of the lines, the lack of antiquarian culture-clogging. Especially as spoken by Olivier, the lines constantly combine the power of prose and the glory of poetry. Photographic per spectives are shallow, as in medieval paint ing. Most depths end in two-dimensional backdrops...
...worst people in Going My Way are as sugar-coated as Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch. Yet it has, inadvertently, a good deal of genuine religious quality, and is often a beautiful piece of entertainment in spite of its Sunny-Jim story. Leo McCarey's leisured, limpid direction and Steve Seymour's splendid sets are partly responsible for this-the coarse lace half-curtains, waxed floors and seldom-used ashtrays of the rectory are evocative just short of genius. But the best reasons are the loving attention to character, and some magnificent acting. Father Fitzgibbon might have...
...Marshall Islands differ from Guadalcanal, which is an 80-mile long island with a great jungle-covered spine and coconut groves, jungles and grassy flatlands along its shores. No coral reefs guard its coast. The Marshalls, like the Gilberts, are ancient atolls - coral reefs ringing irregularly around blank and limpid lagoons. On the reef, like beads in a necklace, are occasional land masses of coral sand, large enough to support airfields and artillery installations. Hot and waterless, the Marshalls lie under the equatorial sun and dead men begin to stink very promptly. Flat and naked, the Marshall atolls have...
Then there are eyes, which are mostly an ordinary brown or blue. Sixteen claimed hazel, and 11 said their eyes were a fiery, mysterious green, while three favored languid, limpid grey. Age was probably the most scattered statistic. Although girls today can enlist from 49 down to 20, this batch was 20 to 40 and had birth certificates to prove it. Most were between...