Word: touche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...front compounded of sincere ties and a fetching spiel. You will find it not at all difficult to share his disgust on realizing that his life, and the programs the country listens to, are shaped by the whims of a tyrant-sponsor. This churl is delineated expertly, if a touch too silkily, by Sidney Greenstreet. And Adolph Menjou's sodden-drunk recital of the way he got ahead by giving a friend and associate the shaft, is strong, frightening acting. In fact, for a movie presumably depending on the title and the names Kerr and Gable for its impact...
...study of operatic directing is not the only radical departure from traditional technique offered by the school. More fluid staging and less wooden "business" have added a lighter touch to the student performances here as well as a feeling of animation which makes an operatic spectacle more than a series of singers parading on and off the stage with little or no attention to acting...
Mary Pickford was sued by Director Gregory La Cava for exactly $1,653,750. After "temperament clashes," Mary had broken their oral contract to film Broadway's One Touch of Venus, Gregory said, and sighed: "I'm rather impractical about these things...
Next day the men of M-G-M barred Miss Robertson from its previews, and asked BBC to silence a voice that it felt was "completely out of touch . . . unnecessarily harmful to the film industry." Critic-&-Author (Four Frightened People) Robertson promptly filed a libel and slander suit (TIME...
Once, when a brilliant student who was forever cutting his classes finally showed up, Professor Harper turned to his other students and said: "Gentlemen, Mr. So-&-So is with us today, and we should all be very grateful." From anyone else the remark would have had a touch of sarcasm-but George Harper meant...