Word: mediterranean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...husband, the gifted Vincente Minnelli (The Clock, etc.). The color-juicy oils and dark pastels, used with taste and intelligence-equals the best on movie record (Vanity Fair, Colonel Blimp, Henry V), and is the one unqualified triumph of the show. The composition and movement have Minnelli's Mediterranean sumptuousness. The tunes and lyrics are good grade-B Porter. Miss Garland's tense, ardent straightforwardness is sometimes very striking; and Gene Kelly does an arrestingly ambitious job. But Kelly's work is also a fair measure of the failure of this ambitious, highly stylized film...
...recognized as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church, but gypsy legend claims that when Mary Magdalene, Mary Salome and Mary the mother of James the Less fled persecution in Judea and crossed the Mediterranean, a gypsy called Sarah received them and became their servant...
Southern California has a "Mediterranean" climate (mild wet winters and hot dry summers) like ancient Greece. Therefore, enthusiasts claim, it will some time lead the world intellectually into a new Age of Pericles...
...Jericho. The long-awaited deadline was not greeted by everyone with cheers, tears or public congratulations. At the moment when Cunningham's cruiser slipped into the Mediterranean and the White House was preparing its announcement, a short (5 ft. 4 in.), chubby man, in sweeping robes and with one loose end of his Hejaz turban flopping rakishly at his shoulder, was standing in the night air, five miles east of the Jordan. Abdullah Ibn-Hussein, King of the Hashimite Kingdom of Transjordan, was watching his Arab Legion assemble. During the day, fierce-faced, khaki-clad soldiers of Transjordan...
...Wild Adventures." Abdullah's reins would likely pull him up short of that grand design. But few supposed that he would peaceably give up the Arab parts of Palestine. That might, indeed, fit British hopes for the Middle East: they need a secure corridor from the Mediterranean (probable outlet: Gaza) through friendly Hashimite kingdoms to the oil and bases of Iraq. As long as they hold Abdullah's purse strings, they will try to hold Abdullah to this more modest plan. Said a British official in Amman last week: "The Legion will be very prudent. We want...