Word: poignant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ordinary photograph of a wonderful man and a real leader, Paul Douglas, on your cover! . . . I think that your covers are excellent and that their backgrounds always have pointed and poignant significance. But, on the other hand, the plain photograph calls special attention to the man who is our only logical choice for the next President...
...without boring the audience. But as soon as the camera moves out of the room in which most of "The Glass Menagerie" takes, place, it lets the characters out and one can't feel quite as sorry for them as one did in the play. One of the most poignant episodes in the stage production, for instance, was a monologue in which Amanda Wingfield, a demolished southern belle, recalls her past. It was poignant because the belle was so far from her romantic youth. The picture, however, in order to avoid focusing on one face for several minutes, adds...
...Faulkner's blazing skill and lazy improvisations, his rich humor and corny folksiness, his deep sense of tragedy and tasteless gothic excesses are all brought together. About half a dozen stories are as good bits of fiction as have ever been written in the U.S.: Barn Burning, a poignant sketch of a boy's anguished love for his arsonist-father; A Rose for Emily, that hair-raising classic of a lady's decline to necrophilia; Wash, a magnificent portrait of a poor white who, after years of loyalty, rebels against his landlord; Dry September, a lynching story...
...World on a String (Ella Fitzgerald; Decca). Not so poignant as Mildred Bailey's classic recording, but even this one proves that the Harold Arlen song is still head & shoulders above most of today's limp romantic ballads...
...acting corresponds to the emotional economy of the script. Ian Hunter and Alison Leggatt are perfectly cast as the major and his wife. They act with simplicity and poignant reserve. Rosalie Crutchley lends vitality to the generally quiet production as the distraught war-wife; in addition, she is very beautiful. And Peter Illing plays excellently the role of the oily Syrian merchant who serves both as the protagonist of the plot and as a moral foil to the major...