Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With her old self-confidence, she mastered four new Italian roles, broadened her acting ("You do things here New York would consider a little corny"), opened as Leonora in Il Trovatore. At the end of her big first act aria, the audience went wild. Next day, Astrid found herself the talk of the town...
...Shelved, and thereby virtually killed, home rule for the District of Columbia, which has been governed by congressional committee for 70 years. ¶ Ignored Secretary George Marshall's urgent request for a three-year extension of the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act, the nation's most successful experiment in economic internationalism. Instead, it voted to extend the act for one year only, adding a provision which would bring major tariff changes under congressional veto. Senator Arthur Vandenberg announced that when the bill reached the Senate he would do his best to take the veto out again...
...does the heavy punditing for the team, but the quiet Stewart has the reputation of being a better legman. Nevertheless, the brother act performs smoothly. "We have no fights on policy," says Joe. "Our arguments are on points of emphasis-and on how far out on a limb we should...
...right moment. Sometimes she has to gloss over the end of her TV bill of fare in a hurry; again, she may have to ad-lib with her eggbeater, in order to fill out the half-hour. "Food is alive," she says. "You never know how it will act...
...critics may grumble about Eileen's dressy monkeyshines-but they also think that her playing is in Myra Hess's league. U.S. audiences have not yet seen Eileen's act, but millions of moviegoers have heard her (the excellent sound tracks of Rachmaninoff's Concerto No. 2 helped make The Seventh Veil and Brief Encounter two of the best British movies seen...