Word: well-chosen
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From cover to cover, it is consistently beautiful in typography, illustrations, and color printing. I particularly like the TIME flavor of the well-chosen, well-written articles. I compliment you upon your discriminating selection of subjects. They lack nothing in variety, freshness of viewpoint and general treatment...
...this play (The Constant Wife) on the stage. Miss Chatterton goes away, but she only pretends to have somebody with her. Her tentative paramour gets off the train as it is leaving the station. William Somerset Maugham's epigrams on the sound device, and intelligent acting by a well-chosen cast, suggest what U. S. audiences have learned to accept as the authentic atmosphere of a London drawing-room. Imogene Wilson, now Mary Nolan, plays satirically and deftly as the blonde girl who brings about the inconstancy of the constant wife's husband. Best shot: The ladies mouthing...
...Village of Sin (Amkino). People have learned to expect in any modern Russian film a cast of well-chosen actors and actresses with difficult names, acting competently and intelligently without makeup on their faces, so that they do not look like actors and actresses but like men and women. People have learned to expect photography so quietly beautiful or so imaginative that the best effects of Hollywood technicians seem artificial or flamboyant by comparison. They have also learned to expect doses of tedious propaganda extolling communism and episodes in which unnecessary impressionism takes the place of ordered storytelling. This picture...
...confusion: "Election day dawned with no strong candidates of any party. Election day waned with no candidates developing any signs of sufficient strength to win. In fact, ten minutes before the final ballot any latecomer in the halls of Parliament where the election was held might, by a few well-chosen words, have obtained the victory...
Hooverites thrilled last week, to hear the voice of the busy Beaver Man, himself, coming to them over the radio. It was not that he said very much?just a few well-chosen words spoken in Washington in connection with a national oratorical contest for school children which was won by one James R. Moore, 17, of Somerset...