Word: romanticized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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A wealthy merchant's son, Malraux in his youth went off on an archeological mission to Indo-China. There, he discovered his sympathy for the underdog, helped the colonial rebels against French imperialism. Later, as a member of the Canton Committee of Twelve, he helped the Kuomintang and Communists...
The Struggle with Disaster. Malraux today is a man with his mind made up, but he is more nervous than ever. His face twitches as he talks. He walks stiffly because of a leg wound he received fighting in the underground. To get across his Gaullist message to the French...
It was a long time before Daniel again managed so lively looking a bronze as the Minute Man, but his fame was already as secure as the statue itself. He made as much as $80,000 in a year. His sculpture did not have the clean perfection of the Greeks...
In Composer Richard Wagner, the contradictory elements became part of an even greater tragedy. Wagner, says Mann, was a "voluptuary" whose battle against his own lavish, romantic sensuality was a lost cause from the start, and whose passionate fairy tales suffered the horrible fate of being engorged in a "beetle...
Mawkish in spots, High Barbaree often strays through loose, highly fabricated, though nicely made flashbacks. But in some important respects, the movie remains true to the best that is in its gently romantic spirit. As a result, it is genuinely moving. Van Johnson, who has given some wretched performances in...