Word: artlessly
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...Isaac Stern reached Horowitz by phone to say he had had tears in his eyes throughout the concert. Horowitz had once more proclaimed himself the greatest of living pianists. By turns elegant, playful, probing, introspective and, finally, heroic, Horowitz had also reaffirmed his lineage as the last romantic, whose artless, effortless, larger-than-life pianism, redolent with spontaneity and freshness, is a vanishing...
DIED. Louise Brooks, 78, jazz-age actress of rare beauty and artless eroticism who animated the silents' stereotype of the flapper in such films as Love 'Em and Leave 'Em (1926), deepened and darkened her allure in A Girl in Every Port (1928) and reached her apex as Lulu, the embodiment of sexual energy and evil in Austrian Filmmaker G.W. Pabst's Pandora's Box and its sequel Diary of a Lost Girl (1929); of a heart attack; in Rochester. Unable or unwilling to accommodate to the Hollywood system, she saw her star fade out by 1940. Her crisp essays...
...place where we wish we were, where we are at our best: generous, fertile, humble and at peace. For some the vision may be exquisitely formal, a garden of thought and geometry, traced with tulips and a perfectly taut hedge. For others it is wild and artless, with shaggy trees and hiding places and children splashing in clover. Even if we have never been there, we know what it looks like. Maybe it is the change of season, or something in the social climate, but suddenly it seems as though all around the country people are going to any length...
...Washington is a plate full of highly intelligent, artless, tactless, and harsh people,” says James S. Traub ’76, who wrote a 2003 cover story on Summers for the New York Times Magazine. “It is true that even there, diplomatic skills get you to the top. But it’s also a world of people who are really abrasive...
...innocence, a simplicity and a beauty that make you feel like you're not watching a manipulated piece of commercial art, which is what films are." Boyle has to feel lucky that Etel wasn't home sick that day; Millions might lack a spark without this boy's artless charisma. But the screen appeal of an untrained actor like Etel has to be weighed against the risk of his blowing lines often or being petrified by the awareness that a gigantic enterprise depends...