Word: makeups
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whole generation of operagoers, Pinza's Don Giovanni-in richly decorated doublet and single gold earring-was the virile embodiment of everything the role implied. Although Pinza could barely read music, he had a prodigious musical memory and a bone-deep sense of musical taste. He labored over makeup and stage business-he once spent hours hurling himself to the floor of the Met's stage to learn how Boris Godunov should die. At a few hours' notice he could move through any one of half a hundred roles with the reflex authority of a fine ballplayer...
...complete confidence is that, in a style which captures much of the spontaneity of a really first-rate documentary, they present a story which centers on the career of one Jocko De Paris, a cadet in a Southern military school. Apparently urged on by sadistic impulses in his own makeup, De Paris with the unwitting help of four other cadets engineers an elaborate plot against a fifth undergraduate of the school. The plan involves beating him into unconsciousness, funnelling a bottle of whiskey down his throat, and depositing him in the courtyard, where he is eventually found and expelled...
...that taxes both "the paper's newsprint supply [at $135 a ton] and the reader's patience"; it also impairs the readability of many stories that would gain suspense and clarity from a straightforward telling in narrative style. The old-fashioned story structure developed so that the makeup man in a hurry could cut any story from the bottom without destroying its sense. But today, Moriarty wrote, the breadth and quantity of news require the modern technique of planning pages carefully so that the editor knows in advance how much space awaits each story...
...public but pre-studied in their parts as well. Deborah Kerr played a nun in Black Narcissus ; Robert Mitchum has done no fewer than four tours of duty as a cinema serviceman. Under Huston's sharp eye, they both give good standard performances. Actress Kerr, whose makeup man went a bit too far with the cloistral pallor, sometimes looks as if she had cut her veins as well as her hair; but Actor Mitchum, even though as usual he does nothing but slob around the screen, has succeeded for once in carrying off his slobbing with significance...
...opportunity. If students fail, they at least know they've had their chance." To Headmaster Seymour St. John of Choate, mere "quickness of mind" may become far too important. "Is there not a hazard," he asks, "of neglecting by default other vital factors in a student's makeup?" Adds Admissions Director Robert Jackson of Oberlin: "You have to leave the door open for the Winston Churchills. It is said of him that on the basis of his school record, he wouldn't be admitted to any college today...