Word: superbness
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...Died. Pietro Germi, 60, Italian film director (Divorce-Italian Style; Seduced and Abandoned; Alfredo, Alfredo); of liver disease; in Rome. Germi's Academy Award-winning Divorzio in 1961 was the first of a series of films that marked him as a superb tragicomedian who manufactured social slapstick from the hypocrisies of Italian...
...hard to say who's the best performer in this tiny masterpiece because all four actors do such a superb job. Charles Weinstein as Giuseppe the uncommitted, conciliatory innkeeper plays the stereotypical, craven, religious Italian as completely as that kind of role allows. And Tom Champion plays a marvelous loon-tenant. He has this sense of uncanny timing, this air of naivete that works particularly well when he tells the strange lady to take off her dress so he can see if she really isn't that boy in disguise or when he casually draws a scenario for Napoleon showing...
...secret to Radcliffe's "win" was a combination of fine defensive efforts of both center halfback Nancy Sato and all-Northeast college all-star Karen Linsley, together with the superb goaltending of senior captain Barbie Matson...
...morning." If Macdonald is disappointed by American culture, he is "appalled" by American politics. His "time-tested anarchist principles" have made him almost as hard on fellow leftists as on Goldwater Republicans, and perhaps hardest of all on liberals. Drawing from the back files of Politics, the superb little magazine he edited and published (and often practically wrote) between 1944 and 1949, he offers the definitive gloomy word on Wendell Willkie and Henry Wallace -targets that may not exactly fascinate a post-Watergate reader. But what a delight to watch the Master at work...
Yale pounded at the Crimson, out-shooting it, 19-11. But goalie Ben Bryan played his usual superb game, making ten saves and allowing only one tally. Substitute forward John Challenger knocked home his first career goal to earn the draw...