Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rouleau, however, does far better as a director. In a series of remarkably effective close-up shots he manages to dramatically convey the tension, uncertainty, and fear of the people of Salem. Except for an overly chaotic courtroom scene, the picture is smoothly and intelligently handled. (George Auric's score, incidentally, masterfully underlines the terror of the townspeople...
...Except for the dateline and the names, Reporter Landers' Russian diary, which has been bought by 55 papers, was barely distinguishable from her running chronicle of domestic woe. She went to Russia, said Landers Fan Fanning, "to find out what the hell people are up to." What people are up to in Moscow, according to Dear Ann, is the same old mischief and misery that fills the capitalist press's lovelorn columns...
Like other famed rocket labs, e.g., Germany's Peenemünde, J.P.L. was founded by eager amateurs. In the middle 1930s, Aerodynamicist Theodore von Karman encouraged a group of Caltech students to design high-altitude sounding rockets. For a while they had no money except what they could spare from their own pockets, but in 1937 a meteorology student named Weld Arnold offered to raise $1,000. Says Dr. Frank J. Malina, one of the original rocketeers: "Arnold was a very quiet person who came and went in a mysterious way. He told me he lived in Burbank...
...could be more surprised than Bo. except perhaps the reader, when a quiet English girl named Daphne Poole takes him to her Cambridge flat and locks the door. Bo and Daph make beautiful movie music together, scored for "storms of feeling, extraordinary furnace fires, bottomless spasms, tender places, changes, quiets." After Buzz crudely tries to seduce her. it is Daphne who alerts Bo to his hero's lies, bluster and twisted bravery-"the courage that wants to be alone, that really wants death for all.'' On The Body's final mission, Buzz keeps his neurotic rendezvous...
Much Ado About Nothing. Shakespeare's play is a bore in everything except its prickly-pear love story, and this becomes a total delight as played by Sir John Gielgud and Margaret Leighton...