Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...play, the valiant medicos are frequently treated as very human men-ruthless, sharp-tongued, short-tempered. But in last week's production, they too often performed as though aware of the spotlight. Their actual heroism was a little blunted by touches of heroics, and Yellow Jack, by becoming more theatrical than it need be, seemed less dramatic than...
...Tampa the crowd edged in closer to see Mildred ("Babe") Didrikson Zaharias whack out a golf ball. It was a sight all right, but there were risks; the Babe, among her other great talents, has a sharp tongue. Said she to the crowd: "I know I'm good, but not this good. I have to have room to hit the ball." As the gallery fell back, she took a look toward the flag, waggled once, and sent the ball flying...
Even some of the tiresomely conventional things about this picture are unconventionally done. Most of the cast, for example, are rich, well-dressed and nice to look at, but the observation of this glamor world is sharp and disenchanted...
Unlike oil and water, symbolism and realism can be mixed-but it takes a skilled hand. Ambitious young Novelist Jean Stafford (Boston Adventure) takes a try at it in her second novel, and doesn't bring it off. In parts The Mountain Lion is beautifully clear-a delicate, sharp story of childhood and adolescence. But it darkens toward the end, and winds up in a desperately contrived coincidence...
...violent, muffled rattle split the still morning air over the English Channel. "That ain't no gun-testing," said Skipper Gregson, gripping the wheel of the tiny patrol boat and staring into the sky. Seaman Snowy, 16, whose eyes and ears were sharp, stood at the rail, cried suddenly: "There's a plane out there! Two planes." "Go on!" mocked Jimmy, engineer and third man of the Breadwinner's crew. "I can hear [a Messerschmitt]," Snowy shouted. "What was the other [plane]?" Gregson asked. "They both gone now," said the boy sadly. But, half an hour later...