Word: paragonally
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...Ford, Christopher Tietjens, incorruptible paragon, represented "the last English Tory." The implied compliment is one that even the most ardent Tory, in real life, would consider too good to be true. But Parade's End, like many a fine work of fiction, is not intended to be literally true to life. It is first & foremost an artist's dream, always larger than life, more drenched with passion and drama. Often tortuously long, always intensely complicated by the mingling of thought and action, it is likely to be too much of a Kanchenjunga for most readers to struggle...
There is a certain amount of schmaltz toward the end of the picture, but it cannot be avoided in a movie of this kind. Robinson was a paragon of All-American boys (he had a newspaper route) and his story could only be written "in a country where every American boy has the opportunity to be President...or play baseball for the Brooklyn Dodgers." There will be some who disapprove of the parallel...
Celeste Holm, as the vixen whom the hucksters use to trip up Colman, is much better than her material, but Actor Price, wallowing in an outrageously flamboyant role, outhams Orson Welles. For a while, radio's Quizmaster Art (People Are Funny) Linkletter, a toothy paragon of commercial insincerity, seems an inspired choice for an obnoxious giveaway M.C. But then the script switches about and tries to palm him off as a sympathetic character. Having blunted its point throughout, the picture finally tosses it away altogether by having Colman sell out to Price in a deal that gives...
...scene of the original defeat comes the paragon of righteousness, Errol Flynn, a sheep herder whose father was killed in the great battle. Flynn knows the principle, "Thar hain't no reason why sheep and cattle cam't get along together...
Overwhelming popular demand has held over that paragon of western movies, Howard Hughes' "The Ontlaw," at the RKO Boston for a third record breaking week. But even three years of forced exile from the Boston area has not dimmed the lasting qualities of this momentous film. It is still the funniest and most pathetic western ever made. It must be seen to be depreciated...