Word: skillfull
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cabled a TIME correspondent from the Brussels opening: "The audience applauded mightily, but the work had moments rather than momentum. The music consisted of only a few themes linked by weak chains. One motif-that of romantic love-was warm, sweet and haunting. And occasionally voices rose in skillful counterpoint...
The Defiant Ones (Stanley Kramer; United Artists). Throw together a couple of unknown film writers, an original screenplay never tested in bookstalls, on television or on the stage, a budget of less than $1,000,000 to cover the cost of old-fashioned black-and-white photography and monophonic sound...
Mutual Security. President Eisenhower named $3,950,000,000 as "the smallest amount we may wisely invest in mutual security." Skillful missionary work by State Department's Deputy Under Secretary Douglas Dillon helped persuade Congress to authorize a $3,675,000,000 program, only $275 million below the Administration...
It is. William Douglas Home's screenplay, adapted from his own stage version, tinkles with a profusion of grace notes that, in skillful hands, can often substitute for a full score. The pace, thanks to Vincente Minnelli's direction, is Pall Mall. Comedienne Kendall cocks an eyebrow clear...
What impressed most critics at last week's performance was Saddler's economical evocation of Anderson's mordant visions through the skillful welding of Genevieve Pitot's music with dance and the spoken word. Saddler believes dialogue should be a regular part of the dance: "It...