Word: moments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could this be? What had Shaffers given us already? Balance of Terror, The Salt Lands, Five Finger Exercise, The Private Ear and The Public Eye-all tidy, competent pieces of work, but of no great moment. Yet somehow, and in his midthirties, he wrought a masterwork that dwarfs everything else his nation has produced for nearly half a century...
...That one moment, thirty seconds before the end of the first half, captured the tone of the Harvard soccer team's showing as it polished off Princeton 2 to 0 here Saturday...
...most memorable moment of the evening, though, was James Jones's solo in the "Glory to God" from Handel's Joshua. Mr. Jones gave a strong, well-intoned and highly musical performance, supported ably by the Glee Club. And our football songs were, of course, superior to their football songs...
Director Forbes occasionally indulges in fashionable camera trickery, such as freezing the action into a still shot at a critical moment, but King Rat scarcely needs that kind of help. There is sizzling intrigue in a diamond-peddling deal, corrosive humor in King's plan to breed rats and peddle their flesh as small jungle deer, a local delicacy ("For the luxury trade," he chortles, "brass only-majors and up!"). The film's most blistering episode concerns an anguished soldier's pet dog, condemned to death for killing a chicken. Later, the King invites his cronies...
...Ecstasy). He lapses occasionally by trying to make the plain but amusing Abigail into a pert glamour girl, but he manages to convey the softening influence she had on her crotchety and unbending husband, from the day he first came calling when she was 17 until the moment, 40 years later, when they departed the still unfinished White House. As fictional biographies go, this is a competent job. But both John and Abigail Adams had a compulsion to put words on paper and then saved every scrap. Discriminating readers will find that the numerous volumes of their letters and diaries...