Word: superb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scenes of the film were shot entirely at the Wiltwyck School and in the streets and dingy apartments of Harlem. The photography is superb; it not only portrays the sordidness of the slums, but also sets the mood at all times with varying patterns of light and dark. As a result, there is no need for the incessant narrative that typifies most documentaries; comments are brief and quite adequate. Dialogue is also cut to an absolute minimum, and it is a tribute to the acting and directing that so many ideas are carried across to the audience without...
...first is a superb juggler, the second stands on the forefinger of his right hand in astonishingly precarious locations, and the third skips rope on a very high wire. Such performances are the stuff that circuses are made of. Everything they wear, every move they make, is vivid, dramatic, extravagant. Brunn generates more color than all the John Murray Anderson extravaganzas put together. Never for the a second does he stand still. Not does he ever simply catch anything; he grabs things out of the air. He is showman, and the circus is nothing if it is not a show...
Your article on our muralist and human-flesh-fancier Diego Rivera is light, bright and gaudy. As entertainment-Trotsky, Paulette Goddard and canard faisande-it is superb. As a serious study on a very good painter who is never as great as you estimate him, it is lame, superficial, obvious, and in some aspects, totally false...
...this, Churchill's diplomacy is a superb combination of tact and inexorable firmness. While never forgetful of the President's constitutional limitations, Churchill also never forgets that such limitations might well prove fatal. "The President should bear . . . very clearly in mind," he instructs British Ambassador Lord-Lothian, that the U.S. cannot afford "any complacent assumption . . . that they will pick up the debris of the British Empire . . ." His own remarks to Roosevelt are sometimes genially humble ("I am so grateful to you for all the trouble you have been taking . . ."), sometimes confidently flattering ("I am sure that, with your...
...diving is nothing short of superb. Vicki Draves is an extraordinary performer, and her husband Lyle is almost as good. But the finest dive of the evening is performed by someone I have never heard of, and whose name I cannot remember. It is a combination backward somersault--two and one half forward somersault--full twist plunge off a board which could not have been more than 12 feet above the pool...