Word: raving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that strongly reminded him of his own people's bondage under the Red Chinese invaders. The attraction: The Ten Commandments, one of the late Cecil B. DeMille's last epics, his twice-filmed tale of Moses' struggle against Egyptian terror and tyranny. The movie won a rave notice from the God-King: "I liked it very much. I was greatly moved...
Gypsy (book by Arthur Laurents; music by Jule Styne; direction and choreography by Jerome Robbins) opened to breathless rave reviews. Burbled the Herald Tribune's Walter Kerr: "Best damn musical I've seen in years." Said Brooks Atkinson of the Times: "Most satisfactory musical of the season." The critical fan-farenade for what is, at best, a so-so show would be a puzzler if the answer was not blazoned on the marquee. The answer: Ethel Merman. They all love Ethel, but the love is sorely tested in her latest role as the most monstrous stage mother ever...
...once-daring Italian movie industry. In ailing postwar Italy, cinema was briefly practiced as a kind of social medicine. But the would-be healers prescribed such a bitter pill-neorealism -that the public refused to swallow it; most of the famed Italian films of the late '40s won rave reviews but lost money. In this picture, made in 1956, the ablest of the neorealists-Director Vittorio De Sica and Scriptwriter Cesare Zavattini, who together produced Shoeshine and The Bicycle Thief-sweeten their pill to the public taste. Yet under the sugar-coating of a story of young love, there...
...hitting department, Flumiere thinks they are only fair, and this may help the Crimson a lot. Captain and center fielders Dave Bouchard, a G.B.I. All Star, third baseman Dave Walker, and Dan McGillicudy at first are all better than average sluggers. Beyond them there is little to rave about...
...failed. I fell into a sadness, then into a fast, thence to a watch, thence into a weakness, thence to a lightness, and by this declension, into the madness wherein now I rave, and all you wail...