Word: talentedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite such becoming modesty from G.M., other automen still consider the company nearly invincible in organization and talent and unbeatable in manufacturing efficiency. Still, G.M. last week made an impressive point: as long as other companies hustle, there will presumably be plenty of competition in U.S. automaking...
...Accident and The Servant-Losey has shown skill at conjuring up corruption and terror. Here he is undone by his scenarist, George Tabori, who attempts a ghostly esthetic melodrama in the style of Henry James. Tabori provides all of the mannerisms of the master, but brings none of his talent to the task. Nor is Losey much aided by his actors. Farrow continues to radiate a fragile elegance and a shrewd sense of character and timing. But she alone cannot make a movie...
...precisely this kind of pretentious writing that has given the nouveau roman a bad name. Not that Duras need be so dull. She has a flair for describing violent action and an undoubted talent for inventing plots. It is simply that she is too ambitious for her fairly limited gifts...
Whatever the reason, he has no particular personality to insist upon, "no voice or stance, as we say in the English Department." He seems most comfortable when he can play someone else's part. He has a talent for doing voices and a heavy, mobile face that suggests the prosperous Dutchman who sat for Haals. In the language of the old screen comedians, his imitations produce the boffo--the laugh that kills. He usually delivers the lines sitting down, leaning forward over the table or desk. He moves the corner of his lip up toward his car, smooths the thinning...
Slogan writers no longer have to lurk in subway W.C.'s to display their anonymous talent. Now they can show their genius by entering the "Instant Graffiti" contest...