Word: vividness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There are saving graces. Some of the side comedy, especially as handled by James Gleason as a Broadway agent, is very helpful. Miss Hayworth's first dance, in a vivid sea-green dress, is a pleasure to watch. At moments it looks as if the ballet number might amount to something; and the finale-a sort of genteel Walpurgisnacht in an enormously enlarged Gramercy Park-nearly picks the heavy show up and carries it places. The picture has really attractive songs by Allan Roberts and Doris Fisher (best: Let's Stay Young Forever and People Have More...
...just filling in while Pearson takes a rest," he said modestly. At week's end, as forecast, he was busily bestowing brass rings. The recipients: selected members of the working press. One was the San Francisco Chronicle's Charles Raudebaugh, who, said Columnist Allen, wrote a "vivid and dynamic chapter ... in Our Fair City [Editor: Robert S. Allen], best-selling study on municipal rule in the U.S. . . ." Another was Richard S. Davis, who wrote the chapter on Milwaukee. Three were Scripps-Howard Washington correspondents: Marshall McNeil, Daniel Kidney and Ruth Finney (Mrs. Robert S. Allen). "They know more...
...life and particularly of his presidency. But the film is of interest chiefly because it assembles in one place so many images of the face, so many recordings of the voice and the way of speaking-a full document of the changes that took place in externals and, by vivid inference, in the mind and spirit of the man. Some of these shots are hardly better than silly; some-notably Roosevelt's hurried, death-haunted address to Congress after his return from Yalta-are extraordinarily moving...
...lacks pungency, so that much of these reminiscences of a rather raffish and effervescent period read like a sedate editorial essay. His reports of acquaintanceship with people he admires, such as Willa Gather, Robert Frost and Clarence Day (Life with Father) are too guarded and smooth to give any vivid impression of these writers. His sympathies were never deeply engaged by the new writing of the Hemingway generation, and many of his generalizations about it will seem pallid to literature's more passionate pilgrims...
Boyer takes the word "union" out of the newspaper vacuum and puts it in terms of the history, structure and functions and personalities of a labor organization. In vivid concreteness he shows the union organizing, educating, providing social service, operating a hiring hall, running strikes, bargaining collectively, handling grievances and publishing a newspaper. In short, sharp sketches he shows union men and their leaders as human beings...