Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Frye's skill in Russian was not matched by other Americans in the Soviet Union, however. Indeed, as the scholar learned when he was in Moscow, most of the American correspondents there do not know the language at all. "I did some translation for Welles Hangen of the New York Times, Frye reports...
...Bubble Makers is much more than just a string of jokes. Resigned to the impossibility of reaching Bhutan, Charlie valiantly battles a Mississippi flood. Although this episode is almost a separate story in itself, Goodman's skill in developing the ludicrous drama of the situation compensates for any looseness in the plot. One realizes that the role of "flood-control expert" is for Charlie a substitute Bhutan. After working himself to the point of collapse on a levee, and nearly drowning in the process, he cheerfully announces: "It was the best time I've ever had." An element of charm...
Thirty-one more characters, however, parade across the stage at various times. It is a tribute to Morton Da Costa's directing skill that they maneuver themselves so well. The sets, too, are a triumph. Peter Larkin's designs take the audience inside an airplane in mid-air--a really remarkable feat. All in all, No Time for Sergeants will amuse anyone who will ever have contact with military life, i.e., practically everybody...
...Rosenkavalier is too often sung by a fading, overripe diva. But 39-year-old Soprano Schwarzkopf, handsomely filling her boudoir gown, looked blonde and beautiful. In fact, when she broke down and sobbed over her waning youth at the end of Act I, she needed all her acting skill to make the moment convincing. Best of all, her water-pure soprano floated out and illuminated her big scenes...
...Producer-Director William Wyler has the capacity to see the whole of a motion picture in one flash across the private screen of imagination; and into this sense of the whole he can interpolate ornament-all kinds of human dado and humoristic acanthus-with a skill that gives spontaneity to the grand design without collapsing its tension. Does the little boy refuse to drink his milk? Just let Bogart side with him against his parents, and he downs the whole glass in a gulp...