Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year-old mitten from China to the world's best collection of medieval fabrics. It has Persian calligraphy, English silver, tapestries, ceramics, furniture, wallpaper, works in glass, enamel and wood. Its library may be unsurpassed in the U.S., and its collection of drawings and prints is superb. Its Winslow Homers alone-more than 300 works -are probably worth an amount that would be well over...
...drivel (The Man With The Barbed Wire Soull etc.) is the simple statement, "Paul Newman is Hud." The adwriter no doubt had reasons of his own for saying "is" rather than "as" or "in". Still, even if by accident, he said something true. Paul Newman's performance is so superb, so complete, that he doesn't merely play the role of Hud Bannon...
...today's literature, the devil cannot be found. He is everywhere and he is nowhere; for there are few modern evils that have not. been justified in the name of some higher good. In this superb first novel by John Fowles, 37, a schoolteacher in London, evil has seldom found quite so many excuses for itself and for that reason has seldom been so sinister...
...hide-out in the Sierra Nevadas, was too stiff and ludicrous. But in the third act, when all the unleashed forces seek and obtain resolution, the Players were smooth, polished, and sparkling. Etain O'Malley, who is not voluptuous enough to be the vamp she attempter earlier, was superb as she first disposed of one eager lover and then skillfully trapped Tanner...
...world like a rabid gnome, Margie Hertz in the part of Mad Margaret, the village looney, almost stole the show. It was a joy to watch the diminutive Miss Hertz sprinting purposefully through a forest of knees in the second act patter trio. With a lovely soprano voice and superb comic timing Kathleen Campbell played a village beauty, Rose Maybud-"sweet Rose Maybud," as she often reminds us. Demurely and discreetly, she was a girl on the Victorian make. Her turn came in the second act's "Tight Little Craft" sequence when, with a Maiden At Prayer expression transfixing...