Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...implausible. There is no plot, and the characters impinge on each other as temperaments rather than as people. All the action is in flashback, and the key act is a long-ago kiss stolen by the playwright from the virginal mother of three, a kiss that somehow set in motion for the woman and her future husband and children that secret civil war between Puritanism and passion, a war of the blood more openly and obviously dramatized by Author Morris in the spectacle of bloodless Americans watching the bloodfest of the bull ring. Always a novelist to watch...
Stiff opposition to the "Rides Service" budget wilted under extensive debate, the motion passing 14 to 1. Major item on the budget, and major stumbling block to passage, was an estimated $240 needed to pay a dollar an hour, six hours a week, for a permanent director of the service...
...occasion, Washington blue bloods, Michael Kidd continually constructs exuberant displays. With wit, ballet, acrobatics, and pantomime as tools, he creates a life on stage that is a pleasure to watch. At his worst, his hand is merely too obvious, owing to the sometimes overprofessional polish of his characters' motion; at his best, as in the very amusing Sadie Hawkins Day chase, his work is a tour de force...
...giant dinner and a Life magazine sponsored motion picture production will mark the birth of the Citizen's Advisory Committee to the City Council tomorrow night in Memorial Hall. The dinner is sponsored by the local Chamber of Commerce...
...motion picture called War and Peace scarcely resembles Tolstoy's War and Peace. Considering the size of the novel, the number of its characters, and the complexity of its ideas, that fact is hardly to be wondered at and not entirely to be condemned. The only trouble is that once the team of six writers who "adapted" the book decided to discard the philosophy of Tolstoy as impossible to dramatize, they failed to settle on a point of view of their own. And so they and director King Vidor produced a huge, handsome picture which might be called a historical...