Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your handling of this matter was superb. Historical changes have always been brought about by significant causes so obvious that it seems incredible they weren't properly understood. Nearly always, however, they were obscured by contemporary trivia which seemed more important at the time...
Biographer Forbes catches some of the vitality of that line in her account of the ride and of the ground swell of war that began the next day. Her Battle of Lexington, even more than her description of the Boston Massacre, is a superb piece of historical writing...
...glamorized Hedy Lamarr--as Sweets Ramirez, the can-factory worker-is infinitely more fetching than she ever was in silks and sables. Frank Morgan, playing the devout dog-loving old miser. Pirate, steals the show, and, as followers of Pilon, Michael Qualen, Allen Jenkins, and especially Akim Tamiroff are superb...
...credit side must be put at once . . . [Churchill's] fruitless efforts during the five [prewar] years, his Cassandra-cum-Jeremiah period. Secondly, was his 'into battle' period, when his superb rhetoric and unflinching courage focused like a burning glass the latent will to win of heroic, freedom-loving men the world over, when all seemed lost...
...cast-pretty, thin-voiced Cinemactress Constance Moore, big-limbed Benay Venuta, gallery-god Ronald Graham. It's Ray Bolger's show. As husky Hippolyta's simpering, ladylike husband he is deft enough to draw many a laugh, skirt many a snicker. As a dancer he is superb-inexhaustibly inventive, unfailingly comic. But being the star of the show he has to carry too much on his shoulders to do all that he might with his feet...