Word: lucent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...user Bacchanale a hush spread over the backstage throng of greasepainted singers and grimy sceneshifters. The next few minutes would tell the story of Marjorie Lawrence's first comeback in opera. Gesturing from her couch, she smiled triumphantly and sang Venus' lines with a pearly soprano as lucent as ever...
Village is a study in faces-native Mexican mountain faces: strong-nosed, squash-nosed, distrustful, lucent and, except for the children, lined by labor. Its actors (all natives) are natural and astonishingly good, especially a mop-haired little boy (Paco), who dies of dysentery, and his older brother (Juan Diego), who makes the long hike to the city to return with the "horse-blood men"-Mexico's rural medicos and their vaccine...
...slavery." Although this thesis produces a lot of talk in Major Barbara, it is the kind of talk that cinemaddicts seldom hear-brilliant, provocative, richly comic. It is solidly backed up by a baker's dozen of superb acting performances. As the author's chief protagonist, lucent Wendy Killer (Pygmalion's Eliza Doolittle) is the Salvation Army major who believes that the pure in heart will inherit the earth, only to learn that the rich already...