Word: skillfull
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Griffith provides some skillful comic relief as a sheik who is crazy over horses. But what matters most and comes off best in the picture is the great scenes of spectacle, particularly the chariot race, a superbly handled crescendo of violence that ranks as one of the finest action sequences...
Emily Dickinson frequently combines the abstract and the concrete in such images as "amethyst remembrance," and "the blue and gold mistake of Indian Summer," MacLeish noted. By skillful use of tone she is then able to make these sensual counterweights to her ideas seem true.
As comics, Bert Lahr and Nancy Walker are both likable and skillful, and whenever they are permitted to do things instead of being forced to say them-notably in a pantomime of bare-fanged marriage-they are splendid. Lahr in a plane or at a stage door, Walker in a...
At ABC, Kintner established his reputation as a skillful and relentless peddler of air wares. He set up the kind of crassly commercial operation so successfully carried on by his successor, Oliver Treyz, after Kintner left in a quarrel with ABC Board Chairman Leonard Goldenson in 1956. Says Kintner now...
Still, if the casting of the two main roles was far from perfect and the performance in the pit highly unsatisfactory, the general effect did not lack tension and emotional impact. Credit this to the generally competent singing in both major and minor roles (in fact, the shepherdess, Taeko Fujii...