Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dietrich and Jannings turn in fine performances that are vital to the success of Sternberg's visual subtleties. Dietrich makes the plot plausible by injecting enough warmth into her role to justify Rath's falling in love with her. She manages to remain sympathetic until the last sequence and, even in a skirt scalloped up to the waist in front, she maintains dignity. Her singing alone is worth the price of admission. See this film before it's retired...
Where Cinema calls Raisin "a writhing vital mess of tenement racism," Theater called it [ when it appeared on Broadway in 1959] "a well-crafted play...
High in Cairo. The Mississippi's river system is vital. It furnishes power for a huge chunk of U.S. industry. Americans use it to irrigate their farms, to brew beer in Minnesota, to draw off sewage in Ohio and Kentucky, to carry boats and barges over thousands of miles, to help light millions of homes. But the Mississippi, the Ohio and the Missouri, with all their tributaries, are also deadly: in 1952, as an outstanding flood-year example, they cost millions in property damage, along with scores of lives. Now, for the first time in the habitation of North...
Election Toll. Diem responded by handing Colonel Thao command of vital, rice-growing Kienhoa province in the Mekong River delta, where previous commanders had failed. There Thao has cut the guerrillas down to size with skill and daring at their own nighttime jungle tactics. "When there is too much light, you can see nothing," says Thao. "The truth is in the night...
...Raisin in the Sun. Tenement realism about family life in Chicago's black belt bursts out in a writhing, vital mess...