Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sides of the house. The hostility of the chorus was evident from the moment its opening hisses, murmurs, and shouts began to fill the darkened theatre, while both Her helplessness and humanness came through largely from Miss Mandac's presence on stage. She turned in a superb performance, as she passed from a small chair to a prison cell, a drab bedroom and, finally, a huge bare, rehearsal stage, she movingly conveyed everything from lyrical calm to the hopeless despair which reduced her by the end to shouting "Go away!" at the entire theatre. Berio's score creating exactly...
Adrienne Rich has contributed one of the poems from her superb last collection, "Face to Face." She evokes the American past with her infallable precision, lending high rhetoric the aspect of everyday speech in such phrases as "the prairie wolves/ in lunar hilarity," moulding images sharp as her beloved snapshots in passages like: "How people used to meet!/ starved, intense, the old/ Christmas gifts saved up till spring,/ and the old plain words...
...Girl. They don't make them that way in show business much any more, and Americans seem to sense it. Her perfect-pitch soprano has a crystal clarity and superb diction, and yet it can be as warm and soft as a purr. She does not radiate sensuality, nor is she the pulp of publicity campaigns. She is everybody's tomboy tennis partner and their daughter, their sister, their mum. To grown men, she is a lady; to housewives, the gal next door; to little children, the most huggable aunt of all. She is Christmas carols...
Pride & Genius. In handling the impossible military problems and improbable personality of Douglas MacArthur, Marshall was superb. A minefield of difficulties had to be threaded before MacArthur could be moved from the Philippines to Australia and establish a new international command on the ruins of the shattered U.S.-British-Dutch-Australian setup. He had to respect MacArthur's legitimate pride and ignore the inexplicable pettiness that moved MacArthur to fight against a Medal of Honor for his comrade, Jonathan Wainwright, destined for a Japanese prison camp. Throughout, Marshall never wavered in his belief in MacArthur's military genius...
...Britain's Robert Bolt re-examined the matter of More in a superb chronicle play. Now Playwright Bolt and Director Fred Zinnemann have transformed the drama into one of the most intelligent religious movies ever made. The film retells the tragedy of a practical man who, when forced to choose between the world at his feet and the God above his head, tried terribly hard to stay right where he was, but was forced by the strength of his spirit to become a martyr malgre...