Word: seventh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Below Emmet, only two Crimson players experienced any difficulty in winning. At fifth singles, Vinton was extended to the five-game limit, winning the final game handily, 15 to 6, and at seventh singles sophomore Tony Lake had to go to the last point before winning, 17 to 16, in the fifth game...
...main reason why no one should miss The Seventh Seal is that it is a masterfully constructed piece of cinematic art. The cast performs with high distinction; lighting, costumes, sets, and make-up evoke the late Middle Ages with the authenticity of a Durer woodcut; and the entry of the flagellants is surely one of the most appalling scenes ever filmed. But Bergman's Gothic allegory will also trouble audiences philosophically, for it retains its symbolic ambiguity to the end and will not permit a facile interpretation or glib dismissal of any sort. For the Eliot House Anglicans...
...income for Hollywood's top ten film and theater companies, reported that while the combined gross came to a whopping $1,102,500,000 for 1958, business was still off $26 million from the previous year. Most surprising success of the moviemaking year: Columbia's Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, which cost a mere $660,000, has taken in $6,000,000 since it opened in December. ¶ For a cool $75,000, Harold Minsky's burlesque show (38 girls, three comedians) flew to Chicago from Las Vegas' swank Dunes Hotel to put on one performance...
...studied for the priesthood but was expelled from his seminary in Rome. For the rest, he was a weirdly gifted writer, schoolmaster, painter, photographer, workhouse inmate, homosexual, paranoiac, and perhaps the most merciless autobiographer ever to snarl at his own image. In his famed, partly autobiographical novel, Hadrian the Seventh, Rolfe created a fantasy in which the College of Cardinals chooses as Pope an expelled English novice (like himself) who reforms the church and the world, and dies a martyr. In The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole, Rolfe told the truth, little less fantastic, about his years...
...Seventh Voyage of Sinbad. Genu, Cyclopes and a floppy dragon conspiring against a few human types (Kathryn Grant Crosby, Kerwin Mathews), in a fine, sometimes frightening film for the kiddy...