Word: skillfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their traditional summer-long vacations. ¶Won more criminal tax convictions than in the previous twelve years (2,272 against 2,260). ¶Built up an outstanding antitrust record, based not on penalizing growth but on protecting the right of all to grow. ¶ Attacked Communists with such legal skill that Communist Party Boss William Z. Foster was moved to say: "The attack by the Government upon the party has been directly responsible for the bulk of its losses." ¶Launched a many-pronged assault on civil rights restrictions. In his proposed civil rights program Herbert Brownell is moving eyes...
...numbing roundhouse rights and ripping uppercuts. Robinson planted his feet and mostly waited; when he did fight back he was as right-hand crazy as a preliminary boy. Held high, Sugar's left was only an ineffective shield. Piling up points, Fullmer showed his contempt for the fading skill of Robinson, once the greatest craftsman of his generation, by landing with awkward, sprawling right-hand leads. Robinson backed off. He waited...
...utner (The Captain of Köpenick), gives an answer that apparently satisfies the Germans. Made in Hamburg in 1955, the movie has been running for 18 months in West Germany and has grossed 4,000,000 DM. But the U.S. moviegoer, while acknowledging the film's superlative skill and horror as a biopsy of the Nazi cancer, may have some reservations about how it reads the riddle of the German character...
...whose work adorns magazine covers and theatrical stages are missing, however this is no one's fault but their own. It is hoped they will be less reticent in the future. Painters Yoshaiki Shimizu and Alden Christie, as well as sculptor Jose Buscaglia, particularly distinguish themselves by their technical skill. In Shimizu's The Climbers the mesage is forceful and direct. The figures are painted in a monumental, realistic style. Bright, clear colors convey the brilliance of the sun's reflection and massive forms suggest in their postures strength and determination. One disturbing detail is the distortion of the faces...
...Snow Was Black is a disappointing film, not because it lacks technical skill--the photography is excellent--but because it seems almost a parody of excellent films in this genre...