Word: soul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...excellence into the realm of excess. Josette Day's performance as Beauty scores the danger larking in an overdose of horror. The plot demands that the heroinc ignore self-opening doors, living statuary and arms that project through the wall to hold candelabra. Furthermore, she must recognize the pure soul of the Beast shining through a hair-matted body and lighting a vaguely feline and totally grotesque face (superb make-up, this). Well, the actress does not live who can convince me that she has really learned to live with a monster and to regard his terrifying chateau with...
...tell if Harvard's coaches display their leadership by crying and pouting to the press or if the alumni really hustle to keep the varsity strong . . . Ninety percent of our universities and colleges today would unhesitatingly tell Mr. Christopher Fry that our big affairs are attendance-size, not "soul-size...
...cast really stand out. Pippa Scott, playing Frytania, is the Tallulah Bankhead of Bad Fairies, angular and wicked, with a fearsome bit of makeup to suit her evil soul. Slugging it out with the Bad Fairly is Weady Robertson as Beauty, who is the apogee of sweetness and light. Miss Robertson is marvelous in an extremely difficult part, since it is so much more difficult to portray Good than Evil...
Poet Gittings suggests that it was Keats's faculty for translating into poetry all the stormy feelings of a trying period. Within this time his brother died of tuberculosis, and Keats began his painfully soul-searching love affair with Fanny Brawne, the girl who lived next door in Hampstead...
With him comes another simple soul, too direct to understand or practice the art of devious speaking. These two--the latter played by Renoir--force the aristocratic loafers to examine themselves and their lives for the first time...