Word: seenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cross the embassy threshold, Dwight Eisenhower led his lady and 31 other Americans in joining 23 Russians in caviar, borsch and shashlik beneath crystal chandeliers. Said Khrushchev of his trip to date: "I'm very pleased-despite the strong propaganda, a warm reception." "Had anything he had seen changed his prior conceptions about...
...Belle Indifference. For the defense, Harley Street Neurologist Colin Edwards testified that Podola's patchy knowledge was in no way inconsistent with genuine loss of memory, and that only a man with a specialist's knowledge of rarely seen symptoms could fake Podola's act. Podola, he said, was "normally sane with the exception of memory loss," was suffering from "hysterical amnesia," a condition which can be characterized by "unconscious suppression" of particular memories "due to emotional causes." Might this unconscious suppression "clear up next week?" asked Mr. Justice Davies. "I think not, my lord," replied...
...some miscalculations; but some of his staging was ingenious and effective, such as the scenes involving the spine-chilling trio of Weird Sisters. The show was visually gripping; and much of the credit must go to the lighting of David Hays '52, which was as inspired as I have seen in a long time...
...Beatrice and Benedick, Rosemary Harris and Barry Morse made a strong pair of unwilling lovers, spitting out their wit with clarity and verve. They were less reliable than their C.D.F. counterparts, but at times surpassed the Gielgud-Leighton team. (Alfred Drake still remains the best Benedick this country has seen in years.) Some of the supporting men were poor, but the women were better than Gielgud...
...tycoon Larrabee, Bogart has the appropriate earthiness that was last seen in Robert Ryan's portrayal of Gatsby. He is very good in the role. (Casablanca addicts will probably get a kick out of seeing Bogie sailing with his girl on the Sound and humming Boola-Boola...