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Word: superbness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this, with handsome Ralph Alswang sets and superb Motley costumes, has a fine storybook air, but no vibration as story. Nor is showing this hopeless family man for a few years among his family very rewarding. Too much slighted is the George who was not always fat and fatuous, the sometime companion of Sheridan and Fox who adorned as well as tarnished a picturesque society. His maudlin lament, after Charlotte's death, that he can father no royal line, seems both needless and out of character in the father of Regent Street and Regent's Park, the Brighton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, may 6, 1957 | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

Gold of Naples. Italian Director Vittorio De Sica makes high comedy of low life in Naples, and wins some superb performances from Sophia Loren, Silvana Mangano, Toto and Vittorio De Sica (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Apr. 29, 1957 | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

...extra man in the Dartmouth forwards limited the Crimson's share of the ball from set-scrums, but superb line-out play by Stan Merkel, playing his first season of rugby gave the threequarters plenty of opportunities...

Author: By Alastair J.C.E. Rellie, | Title: Rugby Team Beats Dartmouth, 6 to 3, Keeps League Lead | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

Nevertheless, Offenbach's frequently exhilirating music and the superb performances of Miss Smith and Mr. Scott place the Lowell House show safely among the ranks of successful productions...

Author: By Thomas K. Schwabacher, | Title: Orpheus in Hades | 4/26/1957 | See Source »

...show is not that the principals are good--this is expected--but that everyone in both choruses as well seems perfectly at ease on the stage and participates in the staccato by-play so central to this type of comedy. Both men's and women's choruses were superb musically and movement-wise with no trace of awkwardness...

Author: By Gerald E. Bunker, | Title: Patience | 4/26/1957 | See Source »

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