Word: cleverest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gabin interprets Maigret as a shrewd man who can trap one murderer by being gentle and fatherly and capturing the other by being violent and disgusted. He understands what motivates a criminal and plays on their psyches like a virtuoso. Sloppy, unimpressive, Maigret is nonetheless the cleverest of sleuths, and Gabin plays him to perfection...
...show turned out to be a fine one, as the Band did one of its cleverest formations--a bottle pouring into a cocktail glass the word...
...English, as suggested in this very English verse by Sir Walter Raleigh, late professor of English literature at Oxford, live very close to their neighbors, and thus tend to have a depressingly low view of their character, morals and appearance. Angus Wilson, England's cleverest postwar storyteller, succeeds like a gifted gossip in holding the ear of an audience which may deplore the scandalmonger but is entranced by his narrative...
...gives the familiar songs the treatment they might have received from such squares as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff. Frédéric FrançoisChopin, Giuseppe Verdi, e.g., Get Me to the Church on Time as a victory march from a Verdi opera. One of the cleverest parodies since Alex Templeton took Johann Sebastian Bach to town...
Last week, with dazzling help from Washington's cleverest and busiest criminal lawyer, beaming Jimmy Hoffa wriggled free after all. Grinned his lawyer, rich, boyish (37) Edward Bennett Williams:* "I'm going to send Bobby Kennedy a parachute...