Word: saints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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North by Northwest. Alfred Hitchcock's latest cliffhanger (the cliffs are on Mount Rushmore), thoroughly entertaining and suspenseful, with Gary Grant hemmed in by spies and counterspies, among them Eva Marie Saint and James Mason...
North by Northwest. Alfred Hitchcock's latest cliffhanger (the cliffs are on Mount Rushmore), thoroughly entertaining and suspenseful, with Cary Grant up to his immaculate collar in spies and counterspies, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason among them...
Like La Rochefoucauld, Mademoiselle was destined to die in bed. But even death did not spare her a final characteristic misadventure. Her body lay in state for several days. Gossipist Saint-Simon describes the "most ridiculous thing" that then happened: "In mid-ceremony, the urn containing the entrails exploded with a frightful noise and a sudden insufferable stink. Instantly, there were the ladies, some of them swooning with horror, others taking flight ... the monks ... in the act of singing psalms, all made for the doors ... the chaos was extreme...
...success. Having said that the C.D.F. "laid a considerable financial egg," you go on to deduce that it has "the least successful record of all." This is a crassly materialistic view. The C.D.F., in the stature of its offerings, has been a pronounced success. And in giving Shaw's Saint Joan with Siobhan McKenna it provided local theatregoers with as great a performance as the Boston area has ever witnessed...
...done a superlative job in two recent plays, Enid Bagnold's The Chalk Garden and Morton Wishengrad's The Rope Dancers. But she has also recreated an impressive number of classic roles. She has given us a warm Sister Juana and a wonderful Maggie Wylie; and an unmatchably transcendent Saint Joan, which may serve as a yardstick for all future performances by an actress. In Shakespeare, she has now offered us a memorable Hamlet (yes, the title role!), Viola, and Lady Macbeth. And I have not cited her portrayals of other classic roles abroad...