Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Winston Churchill-The Valiant Years (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). ABC's superb series, based on Churchill's war memoirs, moves to the story of the early Japanese victories in the Pacific war. Richard Burton speaks Churchill's words...
...chant and rasp in at least five different languages (she concludes by moaning "Mush, straight ahead, mush") both at the audience and into the occasionally accompanying grand piano. Miss Berberian has one of the few voices I have ever heard that is equal to such a task. Her superb control and truly magnificent versatility enabled her to present a most triumphant reading of this unusually demanding work...
...floating under water all at once. The sea-green light, which seems to come from nowhere, falls not on the figures but on the folds of cloth, on a hand, on a death mask. In the end the painting turns out to be not realism at all, but a superb arrangement of low-keyed color and form...
There is also the voice of the magistrate recording the prosecution of keepers of disorderly houses in Philadelphia's Hell-Town. This changes to his mockery of civic hypocrisy in The Speech of Miss Polly Baker, a superb little satire in which Miss Polly-threatened with public whipping for her bad morals-triumphantly defends her right to bear bastards for the public good...
Omnibus (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). "Abraham Lincoln: The Early Years," a repeat for the superb James Agee script, starring Joanne Woodward and Royal Dano...