Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...points has strengthened the motivation of the characters and the plausibility of the plot-plays so skillfully on the spectator's sentiments that even strong men may find themselves sniffling with joy at the poor kid's wedding. Green's management of the actors is also superb; every member of the cast performs at the top of his talent, and the 19-year-old girl who plays the defective will inevitably be nominated for an Academy Award. Mimieux mimes with subtlety and restraint; she simply behaves like any other well-developed, not-very-bright girl...
...opportunity to remind America that crusading Anti-Communism has been used before as a means of encroaching on political freedom. Many liberal intellectuals have discounted the seriousness of the film because it relies on Hollywood's popular technique and personnel (Burt Lancaster, Judy Garland and Montgomery Clift turn in superb performances). These people should realize that there is a wealth of professional film-making skill in Hollywood, capable of more power and subtlety than any other cinema in the world...
...Jinx. To win at Chamonix, Ferries will need the speed of a sprinter and the agility of an acrobat; he must thread his way twice through the tortuous course at breakneck speed. He will have to stave off the challenge of such superb skiers as Austria's nimble Gerhard Nenning and France's bull-necked Guy Périllat-who swept every major Alpine title in 1961. Ferries will have to lick an old jinx: in 28 years of trying, no U.S. male skier has ever brought home an F.I.S. or Olympic Alpine championship. He may also have...
...trial of Dr. Aziz is done caustically, and here the audience is somewhat better prepared for Miss Quested's sudden shift-this time to relative sanity. The final scene is a superb measuring of tensions between two men, but it is oddly disappointing. Fielding and Aziz, who has been cleared, come to see that the injustices of other men-of victor and victims-have doomed their friendship. They part in sadness, and the play trails off (as the novel does not) in the unsubstantiated hope that tomorrow will be better...
...enslaved her. To make her point, small (5 ft. 4 in.), shapely Coloratura Carroll appeared in some of the wispiest costumes ever seen on a Hannover stage. Her performance was consistently convincing, and her singing-even in the treacherous passages of rhythmically charged speech that stud the opera-was superb. Wrote the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung: "She came, sang, acted and conquered...