Word: shiningly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crimson, while going into the meet with the best team record, 4-0, must do well in the weight and distance events to stay in contention for the championship. Yale, 4-2, is again expected to shine in the running events and has the potential to place in some of the field events, usually a weak spot for the Elis...
That intelligence can seldom shine through the film. Director Karel Reisz (Morgan!) has found an appropriately Proustian mode in which to tell the story, pouring time forward and then reversing it, like the sand in an hour glass. But he places Isadora, the first natural dancer, on a background of numbing artificiality and casts her opposite a series of unconvincing poseurs and popinjays. The baroque scenario -radically cut from 170 to 131 minutes -is florid without being literate, essentially true to the events, but essentially false to the tragicomic character who made them happen...
...Jimmy Shine--An incredibly slight and short character sketch by Murray Schisgal. Still, Dustin Hoffman contributes a truly funny portrayal of the title character; and Donald Drifer's sharp staging and John Sebastran's songs also make it all quite pleasant. At the ATKINSON, W. 47th...
...JIMMY SHINE. Playwright Murray Schisgal attempts an inner journey through mood, psyche and character, but merely creates a transparent character in a sketchy play. What makes Jimmy more winning than his fate is Dustin Hoffman's ingratiating stage personality...
...close of the basketball season last year, Jim Tillman and Gary Schull were stars with no place to shine. Till man, one of the highest scorers in the na tion in his junior year at Loyola Uni versity in Chicago, was drafted by the home-town Bulls last year to play in the National Basketball Association. But when the Bulls failed to offer a contract to his liking, Tillman decided to forgo pro ball for a season...