Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tide turned in 1950 as the world's economy recovered and demand increased for more luxurious, better-feeling fabrics. Orders for silk organdy-lightweight yet stiff enough for full-skirted cocktail dresses-poured into Cohama's Tokyo office. Exports of organdy rose from 35,000 yds. in 1949 to 1,600,000 yds. in 1951. When the organdy phase faded, others replaced it: silk faille shipments went from 30,000 yds. in 1950 to 500,000 yds. in 1955; silk print shipments soared...
...best performance of his career in the role of the sympathetic and successful neighbor, who could not see Willy's deep lack, the emptiness of which he dreamed most of all. It is Earl Edgerton, in the half-real role of Uncle Ben, who represents this dream. Properly stiff, arrogant, and inhuman, Edgerton conveys the symbolic nature of his part: the power and glory of tangible success, of almost physical conquest, a confusion of real and unreal in Willy's groping mind...
...seems to have almost no control. Every possible detail and almost all the conceivable eventualities of a bullfight are crammed into the story, completely obscuring the character of the novillero who achieves his consummation in death. Besides this retailing of tauromachian local-color, Fisher afflicts his readers with a stiff, unrealistic dialogue (including some unconvincing, garrulous pre-fight speeches by the matador). Add to this a number of much mouthed moralizations on the art and significance of bullfighting and you have a long story which can easily be skipped...
...compelling heart warming absurd captivating headlong insulting uplifting perhaps bosomy driving money-maker for a dollar skilled Oscar candidate a woman in the back row insight for Broadway one eyed cameraman grandeur bad translation not since the Outlaw depth heavy a wounded swan real frantic a lead baloon disturbing stiff go over big in Boston gripping obscure simple guts pity posterior firey good try shifty smashing mother laughed Liberace smile tense inconsistent if I had a date climactic good music but Mr. Magoo genius even with Marilyn townies applauded
Through it all, Marylebone's men kept a stiff upper lip-and kept on losing...