Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wife, You Don't. Then, gradually, he began to pick up the pieces. He worked for the first time under Mike Nichols' direction in the Lincoln Center revival of The Little Foxes. And he appeared in what may be his finest screen portrayal, the doctor in Richard Lester's superb film Petulia...
Faller, who finished the year with a 13-2-1 dual meet record, exploded quickly and never let off the pressure until he pinned Baurer after only 76 seconds. It was possibly his best effort of the year as he was truly superb. A devastating "double" pancake was his pinning maneuver. "I felt really good at 158 today." Faller said later. "Quick and strong...
Manuel Córdova-Rios is a simple man. He draws no moral from his experience; his descriptions of jungle cures and tribal society are tantalizing rather than complete. Still, he is a superb storyteller. His rich, supple prose re-creates the darkness of the rain forest-its dangers, omens and teeming, insistent life...
...Species. As Cathy, she lends her role a caste of palpable tragedy and dignity. Like virtually all star-crossed 19th century heroines, Cathy is an example of cloaked sexuality. Calder-Marshall makes that character an embodiment of what Virginia Woolf saw as "a struggle, half thwarted but of superb conviction." Though Fuest seems to leave his players to their own devices, he has a fine camera eye. The novel suggests a suite of woodcuts; the earlier film was, appropriately, black-and-white gothic. Though this Wuthering Heights is in color, it is suggestive of death and transfiguration. The Yorkshire landscape...
...readers in 1968 wore the mask of a metaphysical clown. Cosmicomics was rare science fiction-half Borges, half Groucho Marx-impishly mythologizing how the universe began. Inventing a cartoon-like character named Qfwfq and a supporting cast headed by a galaxy-Eve. Mrs. Vhd Vhd Calvino winged it with superb airiness -a Peter Pan for the space...