Word: passional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would also be hard to match the unpredictable native drive of his politics. Rivera is a Marxist and he plays the part with rumpus-raising, vociferous passion. His paintings are famed for clarity; Rivera's fiery politics are not. He has been a Communist and he talks like one still, but the party now considers him too un disciplined to let him belong...
...Wild Plot. Then the pros-Bill O'Dwyer and Tammany Hall-looked Clen up & down without great passion, spit on their hands and went to work. Before they were even half through they had made Clen Ryan look bad. In the dead of night Bill O'Dwyer summoned newsmen to City Hall, himself broke the wildest wiretapping story to hit the town since Justice Aurelio was overheard thanking Frankie Costello for his nomination (TIME...
...Pierre Bost (who also collaborated on Symphonie Pastorale) have provided a script that is at once ruthless, compassionate and quietly penetrating. Working in the same low natural key, Director Claude Autant Lara has produced an extraordinary fluoroscopic effect of life-in-depth. The lovers' moments of clandestine passion (as frank as any that have recently reached the screen), their childish gaiety, their anguish and fears have an almost unbearable intimacy. Sensitively conceived and superbly acted-notably by Micheline Presle and Gérard Philipe-Devil makes most cinema explorations of the human heart appear strictly two-dimensional...
...atom bomb but by the fact that religious faith is declining more rapidly than ever before, that government planning and nursery schools are smashing the family group, that social barriers are being hurled down everywhere, and the last islands of regional diversity corrupted by mass communications and the passion for mass education...
...records.#&134; But Conductor Thomas K. Scherman's Little Orchestra (38 players) and 40 singers from the Westminster Choir got into the graceful spirit of Gluck's music with the overture, and stayed in it to the last gaily triumphant note. It was, however, the dramatically restrained passion of Kathleen Ferrier's singing, in a voice that is even and full through its two-octave range, that carried the show. Few had ever heard the familiar aria I Have Lost My Euridice so sumptuously sung...