Word: witnessed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...series of brilliant pantomimes, he managed to convey with grace and wit the look of a man doing such assorted things as walking a tightrope, mounting and descending a staircase, and catching fluttering butterflies. At his funniest, Marceau mimes both David and Goliath in a tour de force of machine-gun character switches, from the sweet, flute-playing shepherd to the hulking brute and back again, as their historic battle rages. At his perceptive best, in Youth, Maturity, Old Age and Death, he accomplishes in less than three memorable minutes what many a novelist has failed to do in volumes...
...good direction, and the credit goes to Actor Lancaster. In his first attempt to run a whole show, he demonstrates a refreshing preference for natural setting-many a western looks as if it was shot on the back lot of a drive-in barbecue-and a remarkably pretty wit. Furthermore, Lancaster directs himself with more sense for his own limits than most other directors have shown, and he gets an appealing, unaffected performance out of the boy who plays his son. But the best actor in the film, and no shame to his colleagues, is one called Faro...
...ambitious sisters from Ohio who invade Manhattan, settle in Greenwich Village and have assorted adventures with the local bohemians, the native wolves and a large part of the Brazilian navy. Janet is decorative, particularly when she romps artlessly about her basement apartment in scanties. but Comedienne Garrett's wit is more often brash than beguiling. In general, the film is callow where it should be young, and supported by dogged energy rather than a bubbling gaiety. In mid-film, Jack Lemmon adds some bracing laughter to the show with a slapstick attempted seduction of Betty Garrett. In this scene...
...been a rich life, the success story of a frail, skinny kid who used to be afraid of automobiles but grew up to become the "bravest man in the Air Force." It is the achievement of a physician with enough wit and wisdom left over to be something of a poet, humorist and philosopher as well...
...their press a book named Cosmographiae Introductio. In it, for the first time, appeared the name of America. Wrote the author in Latin: "I see no reason why we should not call it America, that is to say, land of Americus, for Americus its discoverer, man of sagacious wit . . ." The name stuck...