Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Listen to Buddy Rich some time, and then play a record by Lionel Hampton, called Shufflin' at the Hollywood, with Cozy Cole on drums. You hardly hear Cozy on this record, but you can feel the beat, and the way he builds it up. Cozy has a superb sense of phrasing, and everything he does fits in with the band. And this is the point I'm trying to get at : if a drummer doesn't fit in with a band, he's playing flash and is a one-man band himself. This seems to me to be extremely important...
...Willkie remember that . . . 22,000,000 intelligent citizens on Nov. 5 supported his amazingly superb crusade for democracy! As long as Americans have leaders like him, we shall not surrender our prized American heritage...
...Herculean jig saw puzzle to fit the pieces into a unified show. Bill Robinson dances and the more you see the more you want. Jerry Lester, who far outdistances Phil Baker as the gag-man of the show, laughs, screams, whistles and ties himself into knots. Imogene Coca is superb in any kind of dance you can think of. And then there is Hope Manning, Red Marshall, Candido, Bothello, Bill Johnson...
...Westerner" is conventional, but so noisily and wholeheartedly as to be outright refreshing. Walter Brennan's superb acting as "The Law West of the Pecos" lends an undercurrent of profundity to all the merry, Western violence. The plot between the shootings is supplied by the Judge's incognito love for Lily Langtree, the actress, and by the romance between a handsome saddlebum (Gray Cooper) and a homesteader's daughter (Doris Davenport, unfortunately). From character play and comedy the picture finally sinks into old fashioned melodrama, and ends up on a note of social significance to remind you that everything...
...Interventionist Cobb, unlike many U. S. interventionists, knows at first hand what war is. Born in Italy of Boston parents, he enlisted with the Canadians in World War I, was twice gassed. He is the author of Paths of Glory (TIME, June 3, 1935), a superb war novel, in which three brave French soldiers were executed for "mutiny" after a sadistic general had ordered a hopeless attack...