Word: nice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Surrealist Painter Salvador Dali announced in Nice that he is about to go into a new motion picture venture. To be produced by him next year: a movie starring Italy's earthy Anna Magnani, in which she will play a woman in love with a wheelbarrow. "The name of the film will be The Wheelbarrow of Flesh" explained Dali, "and she will find in that object all the qualities and charms of a human being . . . it's terrific...
...fashioned, but there is always an inner logic to this movement (and to the next one) that is almost relentless in its forward motion. Thompson, however, does not seem to sustain these feelings. The last two movements, if heard out of context, would be quite enjoyable; there is a nice, smooth melodic line in the third movement and some sprightly tunes in the finale, but these seem divorced from what had gone before. The frequent repetitions contrast unfavorably with the economy and sparseness of the opening movements, and the final triumphant measures sound tacked on. Of course it is unfair...
Playwright Taylor has a nice ear for lines, a sharp eye for manners. But his heroine never quite takes shape, and his plot seems too much without being enough. But if Sabrina is only fair, H. C. Potter's staging gives it a decided fillip...
...mink, the script says-and bait it with everything they've got, which is mostly cheesecake. Millionaires apparently like the bait as well as most fellows, and pretty soon they are wolfing away at the door. In the end, of course, the filthy lucre loses out to nice, clean sex, and everybody goes to bed instead of to Bergdorf's. But while it lasts, the gold rush is rowdy, irreverent, and sprinkled with belly laughs...
...Moon Is Blue. Disapproved by the Legion of Decency and the U.S. Navy, but a nice little comedy all the same (TIME, July...