Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gentlemen were supposed to profess an interest in pugilism. Another, The Biglen Brothers Turning the Stake, represented his equally famed rowing series. The Artist and His Father Shooting Reed-Birds, attested Eakins' artistic mastery, his lifelong love of the outdoors. The Swimming Hole (see cut) established Eakins as a superb U.S. painter of nudes...
...warm to the depth and humaneness of his perceptions; his heads, in particular, had an inward life, like well-banked fires. People who had once thought of him as an uninteresting, restricted colorist could not fail to see that in his taciturn, tender palette range he was as superb a colorist as Brahms was in music. Even those who spoke, with some justice, of Eakins' lack of interest in design, could scarcely fail to note the monumentally simple success of his portraits, the linked flow of limbs and bodies in The Swimming Hole, the crisp, frugal elation...
...basic theme, the is laid in Occupied France and the criminal changes his spots by aiding the Underground. Errol Flynn carries of this part well and, with his customary savoir faire in matters feminine provides the romantic interest. For those who like expert acting. Paul Lukas gives his usual superb performance as an inspector for the Surote. Jean Sullivan a particularly pretty and capable actress by the simple country girl who regenerates Flynn and steels him for his sacrifice...
...buck-&-wing on a xylophone. Three bored sailors tank up and pursue three slick chicks. Some of the action is more like expert pantomime than dancing. The pantomime is often nearly as funny as that of the late great Joe Jackson, the Tramp Bicyclist. The dancing is superb -acrobatic, "specialty," rumba, softshoe, adagio, eccentric, jitterbugging, knee-drops, slapstick, and a violent, half-hidden free-for-all on the floor behind the bar. Fancy Free's success has its 25-year-old choreographer in a state of amaze. Sharp-faced pint-sized Jerome Robbins a dancer with the Ballet Theatre...
Grenadier Major William Sidney, son-in-law of Malta's Governor, Field Marshal the Viscount Gort, received the Victoria Cross "for superb courage and utter disregard of danger ... on the Anzio beachhead...