Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pearl. John Steinbeck's Mexican fable, overidealized, but sometimes moving and beautiful (TIME, March...
...Pearl. John Steinbeck's Mexican fable, overidealized but sometimes moving and beautiful (TIME, March...
...Pearl. John Steinbeck's Mexican fable, overidealized, but sometimes moving and beautiful (TIME, March...
...consequence, the little family was forced into always more desperate flight through swamps and desolate country. The woman knew almost from the outset that tragedy was an inevitable part of such hope as theirs. The man had much to learn before he, too, was ready to give the..pearl back...
Everything about The Pearl is done with tenderness and devotion, and is moving because of that. Now & then-during the breath-stopping dive for the pearl, the flight across the swamp, or a hair-raising moment when a scorpion crawls down a rope towards the baby-the picture comes fully and fiercely to life. But too often the film's makers confused genuine artistry (which requires a clear, tough sense of reality) with the woozily "artistic...