Word: moment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stories & Lemon Drops. From the moment that the Warren train pulled out of Sacramento, the atmosphere aboard resembled a good-will tour. The whole first day, in his invariable double-breasted suit, Candidate Warren had roamed informally through the cars, swapping stories, munching lemon drops to keep his voice in trim, inviting newsmen back to inspect his own quarters. He arranged to have lunch with a few newsmen every day "so you can get to know me better...
...from his second wife, the happy couple eloped for a two-minute civil ceremony and were married again in a 30-minute formal Greek Orthodox service-in which the bridal couple wore wreaths of mother-of-pearl orange blossoms (traditional in the Greek Orthodox service). There was one terrible moment when Francis was threatened with a perjury rap (he had picked up the wedding license in August and had listed himself as single). To cap everything, the newlyweds missed their scheduled flight to Rio. The nation's press had not been so chattery and dewy-eyed over a romance...
...Just Finished." The film begins with routine shots of Matisse's birthplace (Cateau-Cambrésis, in northern France) and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he studied. The narrator tells nothing of what makes Matisse one of the greatest painters living. But the moment the camera closes in on the 78-year-old master himself, Matisse takes charge. Blinking a little behind his gold-rimmed glasses (the floodlights apparently bothered him), Matisse faces the camera and his invisible interrogator with a grandfatherly smile, direct and forceful...
...tunes [as] handled by Britten . . . may be hated by traditionalists . . . But what may seem like impudence is really the artistic assurance of a musical creator who knows exactly what he wants and how to get it with disarming brilliance . . . There is hardly a fault of style, and scarcely a moment's violence is done to Gay's satire." The Observer's Charles Stuart was more lyrical: "... I have been wakening up every morning with new filaments of the exquisite score running through my . .. head. There, I think, you have a sure test of fine music...
...From the moment the camera turns on him as he sits smoking a cigar in the bathtub to his final writhings on the floor of the boat, Edward G. Robinson could be Al Capone, Lucky Luciano, Dutch Schultz. At all times there is the loaded revolver, the two inch cigar, and "yah." Combining these devices with an excellent sneer, and some well handled lines, Robinson turns in his best acting job to date...