Word: succinct
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1980
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
That is the most succinct and accurate explanation of what is described as Cabinet Government: a President and a Secretary working together with no in-betweens. Ickes knew Roosevelt's heart and mind and devised brilliant policy innovations within that framework. The Secretary battled adversaries, wooed friends, took sweeping bows for success, the kicks in the pants for mistakes, argued vehemently at times with Roosevelt but in the end loved the President and his cause beyond himself. Roosevelt knew it and honored him. Ickes took few orders from underlings...
...American idiom. In this, with Swiss Chef Josef ("Seppi") Renggli, they have succeeded admirably; their prize recipes bloom in all of The Four Seasons (Simon & Schuster; $24.95). Unlike many books by more celebrated restaurateurs, The Four Seasons trio present their recipes, and raisons d'être, in succinct and practical form. Elevating basic family dishes to haute cuisine, their prescriptions range from the basic soufflé and chicken pot pie to such palate pleasers as cold peach soup, filet of pompano with citrus fruits and pistachio nuts, and filet of veal with crabmeat and wild mushrooms -capped perhaps with...
...Magic," said Harry Blackstone, the great magician, is "nothing but pure psychology - applied in the right place." That is probably as succinct a definition of the illusionist's art as anyone will ever come up with. What Blackstone discovered was not that audiences can be fooled. It was rather that they long to be fooled and are willing accomplices along...
...succinct commentary, Brownlow manages to illuminate the crucial aspects of his story, from the revolutionary impact of The Great Train Robbery in 1903, to Hollywood's World War I boom era, to the arrival of Will Hays' censorship. Most of the time the story is told, as it should be, through testimonies of survivors. Without resorting to the keyhole journalism of Kenneth Anger's Hollywood Babylon, Brownlow removes the filters from some widely accepted views. Roscoe ("Fatty") Arbuckle is presented as a guileless clown who became a national symbol of infamy before he could grasp what...
This film works beautifully because Hudlin is able to study all this in a relatively short time, without destroying the movie's unity. We leave the theater having seen a cogent, succinct work--not merely a series of important images and scenes. The simplicity of the production, doubtless due to both Hudlin's restraint and a low budget, adds to its strength...