Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FAMILY WAY. John Mills is superb as a loutmouthed father whose newlywed son (Hywel Bennett) and daughter-in-law (Hayley Mills) are unable to consummate their marriage...
Jerusalem-the name means "foundation of Salem" (an ancient Semitic deity)-has a superb setting. Situated in the Judean Hills nearly 2,500 feet above sea level and protected on three sides by steep valleys, it was a natural site for a fortress adjacent to trade routes between the Mediterranean and cities to the east. There was a plentiful water supply from a spring that still flows out of the Kidron valley, just below the southeast edge of the present city. Archaeological evidence suggests that Jerusalem was settled around 3000 B.C. by Bronze Age Canaanite tribesmen. According to Genesis...
Writer-Director Bryan Forbes (The Wrong Box) has spared nothing-certainly not the viewer-in his pitiless case history. He spins out his catalogue of age's miseries to somewhat excessive length. But Dame Edith, 79, gives a superb performance that soars above the script. Hobbling on thick ankles that can no longer bear their burden, querulously demanding a pair of new shoes "nicely styled but not too racy," she has created new proof that for great actresses there is still no age limit...
...best, Bowles has no peer in his sullen art, and he offers here two superb stories of despair that prove it. One, The Frozen Fields, shows how a father's hostility slowly corrodes the brain of a small boy. The other, Tapia-ma, follows an American photographer to the end of his skid. It is a masterwork on the psychology of the dropout, an exemplary model of existentialism in the service of fiction. Utterly bored, the photographer drifts through Latin America and slips into drunkenness at a sinister plantation bar. Unconsciously, he falls victim to conspiracy, accident, destruction. "What...
...author argues that more assertiveness and authority are needed in the State Department. Dean Rusk takes his lumps as a "superb counselor [who] could not bring himself to be an advocate." Hilsman's criticism is less than convincing, since it is based on his personal conviction that the Secretary of State should be a public fighter for policies of his own making, rather than merely the principal foreign policy adviser to the President-and claims that Kennedy wanted Rusk to function that way. In fact, most strong U.S. Presidents have always, and with good reason, preferred the Rusk...