Word: superbness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sweet dessert, there is really but one choice: Baklava. Combining chopped almonds, light pastry, butter, and honey, this is often called a Turkish Delight, and is superb. However, those who wish a less rich finale, should choose between Yaourti (a mild Yogurt) and Feta cheese. Then, either with dessert or after, comes thick coffee. There are some simple rules for drinking: Add neither cream nor sugar, and do not stir, since the coffee rests in the bottom...
With occasionally superb directing and accomplished actors, I Confess shows that Hitchcock, while not perfect, is still the best in the suspense business...
...with a past should be pretty well known by now. Certainly it is to Rosalind Russell who to creates her old role as the protective elder sister. A charmingly casual comedienne. Miss Russell plays the long suffering Ruth with lump angularity and delivers the play's best lines with superb timing. She is also more than adequate to the musical demands of Wonderful Town, meeting them with a surprisingly strong voice and high good humon. When a song is clearly out of her range, as in a melancholy duct about Ohio, she songs her part with a deadpan expression which...
...many, but a joke in the legal profession." Caught in this slow judicial mill is a dewy orphan, Esther Summerson, and a bushelful of broadly caricatured eccentrics. Dickens loses his lightly ironic tone only when he drenches little Jo, the street sweeper, in compassion. Even here Williams is superb; he thunders the author's tearful commentary with a gusto as energetic as the Victorian's prose...
...trade had buzzed with talk about the latest thing in mink. "White wonder of the world," said the ads, "white as purest snow." From the Mutation Mink Breeders Association came a batch of engraved cards, with a golden crown as a crest, announcing the arrival of "this superb new fur." In Manhattan last week, at the first fur auction of the new season, it was obvious that "Jasmine," a new white fur, was indeed the new queen of the minks. It sold as high as $155 a pelt, then settled down to around $70 v. about $20 for darker, standard...