Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...space but to each other. His crew of patches works together as if it had been training in vaudeville for years; maybe the mechanicals don't laugh hard enough at those gay old parochial Elizabethan jokes abous syphilis and sonnets, but their sense of timing and horseplay is just superb. Terry Malick's Bottom, who "gleeks on occasion" with wonderfully oafish conceit, and Philip Traci's absurdly studied Quince are the true leaders of this lot, and a grining David Riggs makes an enchanting Thisby in the interlude...
Supported by superb infield play (which setted four double plays during the pame). Nelson managed to suspend further Crimson scoring, but the deed was already done...
...most part-with the exception of some sentimental daguerreotypes of love and courtship-the program was superb entertainment. At its heart were the soaring jumps and the knee-wrenching kicks around which the rituals of all Russian folk companies are built. The Ukrainians, moreover, displayed a talent for close-order drill that should turn the Radio City Rockettes green, plus body control that enabled them to shift speeds with the smoothness of a car accelerating in fluid drive. Among the highlights: a dance competition in which the men, in soft boots and duffel-baggy pants, remained squatting while they whirled...
Jules and Jim trails off a bit toward the end, but over three-fourths of the distance it is one of the most exciting and likable films so far produced by the new French school of cinema (TIME, Nov. 16, 1959). The performances are superb. The leading men range with ease from piffle to pathos, and Actress Moreau, who has too long been typed as a gamine Garbo, reveals a pretty capacity to clown...
...Maria of Josquin des Pres was considerably better. Elliot Forbes blended the voices with a skill that made Josquin's simple lines shimmer with restrained feeling. When florid melodies did appear, as on the tricky words Nostra Glorificatio, their rhythm and diction were superb...