Word: moment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From France's ornately somber National Assembly building one day last week emerged one of the world's least known and (at the moment) most important politicians. He was huddled in a black overcoat and brown woolen muffler, as if trying to withdraw into himself before the winds of winter and discontent that wailed about him. His black Homburg, tipped far over his pale blue eyes, almost scraped his nose, perhaps the most remarkable French nose since Cyrano de Bergerac's-a long, melancholy nose whose moody descent ended in a surprising and somewhat rakish twist, thus...
...very moment when the Dail met to elect a Taoiseach (literally: leader) , Dev had been hopeful. Of the splinter parties which had ended his Fianna Fall majority, he cracked scornfully: "Many a chisel has lost chips, but did you ever see anybody collecting the chips and trying to make another chisel out of them...
...Forces intelligence captain), he has directed three more-Annie Get Your Gun, Happy Birthday and John Loves Mary-all still running (next chore: directing Rodgers & Hammerstein's Tales of the South Pacific"). Josh deprecates his chain-explosion of successes: "It's hard to break in, but the moment you've had a success everybody wants you. There just aren't enough directors to go around...
...possibly it is also a satire about an Ireland grown languid in the present from living too much in the past-an Ireland in which everyone is so busy acting a part that no one acts. All swift scenes and no sustained story, it flares up brightly one moment, falls flat the next, and its expressionism seems dated as often as daring. But the play has much Celtic freshness of language, and the smoothness born of playing it many times...
Everything about The Pearl is done with tenderness and devotion, and is moving because of that. Now & then-during the breath-stopping dive for the pearl, the flight across the swamp, or a hair-raising moment when a scorpion crawls down a rope towards the baby-the picture comes fully and fiercely to life. But too often the film's makers confused genuine artistry (which requires a clear, tough sense of reality) with the woozily "artistic...