Word: vividly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vivid contrast to Welles the Wunderkind, the Telepix offers up Eisenstein, the past master; and by this stage in his career, Eisenstein's mastery had definitely passed. In Part I, lumbering and contrived as it is, at least one can take pleasure from the intricate visual patterns that Eisenstein creates; in Part II, all that remains is a bevy of intolerably melodramatic actors wearing ludicrous hills of fur, droning like a Russian language record played at too slow a speed, and walking with all the grace of Kate Smith in a cha cha contest. In addition to this, Eisenstein switches...
Shima's background became known only when the paper, impressed by his "great promise," decided to learn more about its hit writer. While his verses in translation lose the rhythm and most of the overtones and associations that the original words have for the Japanese, they nonetheless give vivid insights into an unhappy past and remorseful present. After a lonely childhood, Shima fell in with young hoodlums, served two years in reformatories and jails before stabbing a farmwife to death during a 1959 burglary. He writes...
...Delhi Correspondent Charles Mohr has followed Ambassador Galbraith around India by plane, car and elephant, finds him "the easiest man to interview" he's ever worked with. Mohr describes Galbraith a onetime FORTUNE writer) as amiable, instructive and vivid. Mohr interviewed him six hours for the cover, the last 2½ hours of it on an airplane bound for Bombay...
Brecht is exciting because he found his own voice and knew how to use it. He loved reality more than realism. He could define the ecstasies and agonies of love, work, exile, hope, life and death in images of savage bite and lyrical beauty. Among the vivid images in Brecht on Brecht: Anne Jackson miming the simple glories of the world for her unborn son; Dane Clark doing an amusing Method depth-probe of which hat to wear for a four-minute part: Lotte Lenya conjuring up the ghostly, ghastly Berlin...
...Charlton Heston), betrothed to Jimena (Sophia Loren). is forced by the code of chivalry to kill her father in defense of his own father's honor. Jimena. in turn, though she loves Rodrigo madly, is forced to seek revenge. So much for Corneille. From there out, Yordan collects vivid scraps of incident from the teeming, demi-mythological Matter of Spain, and patches together an opulent tapestry of medieval legend. In its final moment, the film rises to a vision of chilling weirdness as El Cid. strapped dead to his great white steed Babieca, looms above the field...