Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...devil, Edward Mulhare is an urbane charmer, and Paul Henreid's Commendatore and Agnes Moore-head's Dona Ana are all that could be asked. In the title role, Ricardo Montalban is superb, no libertine at all, but Shaw incarnate, with his puritan passion for exposing hypocrisy and cant. If all our minds are freer of the pollution of smug platitudes, it is because Shaw, with his Jovian laughter, helped to clear them. -T.E.Kalem
...inborn sense of beat, or rhythm," says the superb cinematographer Vittorio Storaro, Bertolucci's collaborator since The Spider's Stratagem. Storaro douses Bertolucci's films in ravishing light-working, as many cinematographers do, from ideas in painting. He and Bertolucci drew their inspiration for Tango not only from Francis Bacon but also from Vermeer...
...past and present based on first principles. Kahn's use of brickwork, often stretched in warm massive curves, goes back to medieval Siena. The immense cylinders, arcs and courts at Dacca were inspired by the Baths of Caracalla in Rome. At times, Kahn's forms possess a superb and primal practicality. The Ahmedabad dormitories, for instance, with their stairs set in a thick vertical silo flanked on either side by dark openings, are both a celebration of the sun and a defense against it. Structure is to architectural history as history is to instinct. The unique power...
...Miami's superb zone defense which intercepted three passes, the power running of Larry Czonka, who ran for 114 yards and the pinpoint passing of Bob Griese were too much for George Allen's Redskins, as the Dolphins took a 14-0 lead into the locker room at half time and held on in the final 30 minutes for the victory...
...meet was still close at 23-25 after the first dive but the Crimson soon began to pull away, Yntema completed his superb double with an excellent 1:55.9 clocking in the 200-yd, fly, erasing the mark he set against Army and establishing a pool record as well. Another freshman standout, John Craig, took a third for one large number of Harvard's unexpected points...