Word: relentlessness
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...Producer Ted Mills never takes his audience on a Baedeker-guided tour. With his Assignment: India, he probed modern India with a cool, relentless subjectivity that has been his trademark since his early days in Chicago's languid, sponge-rubber school of TV. He used the same technique to provide television fans last week with a highly personal film poem to Maurice Chevalier's Paris. Showman Chevalier, a redoubtable 68, doffed his straw hat and invited viewers to follow him and see "why Paris is Paris." Chevalier's Paris proved to be not the Folies Bergere, Napoleon...
...screen part as the one-armed brother of the hero (Charlton Heston), displays what one publicist has described as "175 pounds of dreamy meat." The boy is a skillful actor. At one point he even manages to steal a scene from Heroine Anne Baxter, who is probably the most relentless camera-hugger in the business...
...than what Koestler imagined. The 1949 show trial of Hungary's Communist Foreign Minister Laszlo Rajk read as if it had been taken from Koestler's pages. Apparently for reasons of party unity, Rajk, like Koestler's Rubashov, confessed in court to treasonable deviation. But no relentless interrogator was needed to persuade Rajk to confess. The job was done by Rajk's friend Janos Kadar, now the puppet Premier of Hungary...
...Year had many faces, but he was not faceless; he had many names, but he was not nameless. History would know him by the face, intense, relentless, desperate and determined, that he had worn on the evening of Oct. 23 in the streets of Budapest; history would know him by the name he had chosen for himself during his dauntless contest with Soviet tanks: the Hungarian Freedom Fighter...
...final minutes, Bob Cleary showed that this hustle had infected the rest of the team when he kept the puck in the Army zone almost single-handedly with relentless forechecking. If it was valuable then, against Army, it was vital against B.U. and B.C., the teams that had been called New England's best...