Word: vulgarities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...possible benefits of attendance by the press. Its widespread reporting of what goes on in the courts may well prove a potent force in restraining possible abuse of judicial power. This being so, justification for excluding the press in this case may not be found in the sensational and vulgar coverage which the proceedings may have been receiving in some newspapers, and which evidently disturbed the trial judge...
...servant who turns revolution ary and finds his new power as bitter as his old servitude. The Italian libretto is full of mysterious letters, whispered warnings and preposterous melodramatics. Nevertheless, the opera does convey tremendous theatrical excitement and a sharp sense of the great revolutionary ideal that turned into vulgar tyranny. Particularly rousing in the Met's otherwise conventional staging: the trial scene, with a vicious mob of women in the courtroom bleachers demanding Chénier's blood...
...chance to hint at the charm and initial love which wins Isabel's hand, Robert Flemyng's Osmund is to perfection the egoistic tyrant the script prescribes. With Archibald's assist, however, one performance makes all the others seem drab. Cathleen Nesbitt draws from the role of Osmund's vulgar sister a vibrant bitterness which bursts from the genteel monotony of the play. Her acid interpretation, less dilute with silliness than James' conception, gives the lines a brilliance which illuminates the last two acts. In her scenes there is an eloquent portrait of a lady; the play offers no other...
Beau Brummell (MGM) is a $3,000,000 spare-no-expense attempt, egregiously cast, costumed and colored (in Eastman Color and Technicolor, too), to take the moviegoer on an elaborate tear through 18th century England. Censorship being what it is, the spectator generally has to take the vulgar intention for the vicious performance: he sees the ornate Regency sofa, but not what happened on it. Art Director Alfred Junge and Costume Designer Elizabeth Haffenden are in fact the real hero and heroine of this picture. The script (based on the old Clyde Fitch-Richard Mansfield heart-tugger that had four...
...their lost youth, is a good example. Charlemagne tried to snatch back features of Hellenism, and Timur Lenk tried to raise the ghost of the Cairene 'Abbasid Caliphate, neither with success. In literature, 15th century Humanism tried to revive the writing of Latin verse only to see the "vulgar" and more virile Western literature sweep Europe. Toynbee includes the Crusades among the "renaissances" that failed, a deplorable attempt to reach "religious goals by military short cuts." In effect, Toynbee is saying that to stay healthy, a civilization must plot its own course, quotes with approval the ghost of Achilles...