Word: shallower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...happening. Curfew was in force because the rebels had shelled the town with 65 mm. cannon a few nights before. Out in the countryside the scent of almond blossoms filled the damp air. Overhead the sky was clear and stars shone back from puddles of water and the shallow streams we crossed. Occasionally, glowworms, kicked up by the horses' hooves, lit the path...
...play cannot succeed without a good Othello, but a better interpretation of Iago than that of Fred Graves might have redeemed the evening's procedings. Mr. Graves is an actor of some polish and a good deal of aplomb, but his Iago is a shallow study of the dissimulating Venetian. It was obvious from the faint smile on his face throughout the play that Mr. Graves was enjoying himself, in his characterization of Iago as a pret-ty clever bird. It seemed as if he were trying to justify Iago, a natural and usually unfortunate thing for an actor...
...plows doggedly ahead. His scenes with a kitten--cats make him sneeze--are about the only ones that really click. The kitten, however, is too often gerrymandered out of the spotlight in favor of the heroine, who suffers by comparison. And placed side by side with Lewis's somewhat shallow novel, so does the picture...
Indeed you can't. They may fool everybody by seeing that this movie is a preposterously shallow mishandling of some perfectly real problems. It is also a characteristic Hollywood job of turning worthwhile material into trash and presenting it so stylishly that at times it looks good. The dialogue, an affected, pseudo-sophisticated patter, is spoken with such expert variety of inflection that it sounds real, and even intelligent...
Except for English Historian Arnold J. Toynbee's massive summation of the world's experience, which is a best-seller in a one-volume condensation, most of the year's non-fiction was written by men stranded on shallow isles of postwar political journalism-and how often and how quickly the fleets of history passed them by! Others, more aware of present dilemmas tried to find answers in the American past. The year saw an extraordinary number of new books on American history, some of them solid scholarly achievements...