Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Transatlantic cultural hunger of the Eastern Seaboard. This is a full-length portrait of her, recording every detail from the carbuncle ring she wore as her symbol of masculinity to almost every severe headache she had. It makes a period and its chief personages-notably Alcott and Emerson-vivid and understandable...
Some readers will think not. They can nevertheless read Mr. Churchill for its author's sense of history as a pageant of personalities, his eye for vivid, incongruous detail, his ability to compress masses of fact into a smooth ribbon of narrative. They can also read it to trace the development of Winston Churchill from the specious Victorian calm into which he was born, until, an old man, he put the will of a battered empire into four words: "We shall never surrender...
...love with her. This can't be, for Natasha has given her heart to her fiance at the front and the hospitalized officer realizes this when Natasha volunteers for duty at the front upon word of the supposed death of her fiance in action. Here some of the most vivid and spectacular war scenes actually filmed under fire are released by the Soviet government. Especially noteworthy is a long sequence showing the white clad U.S.S.R. troops advancing under fire to blow up an enemy pill-box with dynamite. The film has an unusual ending which smells like Hollywood and would...
...miners in Nevada's mountains, some 30 miles southwest of Las Vegas, heard a terrific explosion, saw a vivid flash near the top of Table Rock Mountain...
...great shakes as a play-at times rhetorical, at moments wooden, wobbly at the start, dawdling at the end-In Time to Come is yet a vivid stage document. At least twice-when the high-minded Wilson comes up against the hardheaded Lloyd George and the cynical Clemenceau, and when, back in Washington, he faces the rocklike hostility of Senator Lodge-the play crackles with verbal drama. In its treatment of issues and men it does not falsify, seldom takes sides. If it turns Wilson (Richard Gaines) into something of a hero for what he tried to do, it never...