Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year's thought has fashioned both a better production and a better-balanced one; in terms of tense and vivid melodrama, indeed, this Othello is as good as Broadway can hope to see. If Robeson last week was a less moving figure than he was at Cambridge, he had tempered the violence that marred his scenes of crazed jealousy, he had better caught the hang of his lordly speeches, the meaning of his crucial scenes. Magnificent in stature, magnificent if a little too solemn in manner, magnificent if a little monotonous of voice, Robeson did not bring...
...October the trees are dusty grey from spraying; the boughs are heavy with fruit; thousands of wooden poles prop up the limbs' ripe red burden. Nowhere else does nature conspire, with volcanic ash, rainless summers and cold autumn nights, to produce apples of such deep and vivid color...
They also serve who only stand and wait - and more often than not this cat-at-every-mousehole policy eventually pays dividends in the kind of vivid, human stories we hope you have come to count on in TIME...
...Alaska Military Highway. It is the eleventh and one of the best of RKO's This Is America series (Private Smith of the U.S.A., Air Crew, etc.), which are among the liveliest and best of U.S. fact films. In 20 minutes this show manages to give a vivid impression of one of the toughest rush-construction jobs ever undertaken-the building of 1,500 miles of road by 12,000 men in seven months...
...rather frank realism which goes on just behind the eyes and the lines of this eager young couple is abetted by some excellent rawboned Western street scenes and by some unusually vivid uses of sound (coyotes, snores, a neighing horse) and camera (scrambled focus for excitement and intoxication) to startle and amuse. John Wayne manages, more toughly if less charmingly than Gary Cooper in his early days, to create a sort of Rocky Mountain Jean Gabin. Jean Arthur, who has the brunt of the comedy to handle, is one of the most attractive handlers in the business, but undermines some...