Word: encomiums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...technical pioneer whose influence can be detected in dozens of films. He even notes that the Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes has acknowledged that the structure of his book The Death of Artemio Cruz was lifted from Citizen Kane. But Brady is prudent about using the word genius, an encomium more freely handed out at Academy Award gatherings than at Nobel Prize ceremonies...
...Mutt-and-Jeff pair are certainly the most popular and conceivably the most powerful movie critics in the country. Probably no encomium is more sought after by film publicists than "Two thumbs up -- Siskel and Ebert" (reflecting their device of signaling thumbs up or thumbs down for good reviews or bad). Just how much impact they have at the box office is less certain, but some in Hollywood think it is substantial. Said Comedian Eddie Murphy at a recent press conference: "Siskel and Ebert go 'horrible picture,' and, I'm telling you, ((they)) can definitely kill a movie...
...Joseph B. Strauss, the engineer who conceived and built the bridge, insisted that nets be strung under the workmen; the nets saved 19. Strauss said it best at the dedication, in an age when wonders were built to stay wondrous: "This bridge needs neither praise, eulogy nor encomium. It speaks for itself...
...practiced in the loftiest reaches of the British legal system, he might also be described as the best lawyer ever to write for the stage (A Voyage Round My Father), screen (John and Mary) and television (Brideshead Revisited, Rumpole of the Bailey). Now Mortimer, 62, has earned another encomium: he is the only adapter of Evelyn Waugh ever to have produced a long novel about the past 40 years of life in England...
...Merrie menagerie will be starring in nine sublimely lunatic hourlong cassettes--the Golden Jubilee 24 Karat Collection--issued next month by Warner Home Video. And this season CBS will air a special to be produced by Saturday Night Live's Lorne Michaels. All in all, a fitting encomium for some of the top film artists and pleasure givers of the past half-century...