Word: blasing
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Last night he alternated Incredible angular passing shots with his old reliable powerhouse net game; always in the right spot, Kramer proved himself master of the unexpected. Even a blase Radcliffe girl had to gasp, "He's fantastic...
...with a series of 60 small panels describing the northward migration of Negro workers that began during World War I. Washington's Phillips Memorial Gallery and Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art both bid for the entire series, and regretfully divided it. The generally bored and blase "art world" warmed at once to the bullet-headed youth, who got his early art training in a Harlem settlement house, and whose temperament was intense to the point of rawness...
...point. Griffiths was driving the lion around in his car. its front paws on the front seat, hind legs on the back seat and head out the window. When blase Californians refused to look twice at what they thought was a stuffed lion, Griffiths nonchalantly poked the beast, elicited a pained roar and horrified attention from passersby...
Love Is Better Than Ever (MGM) works at a strenuous little plot about a dewy-eyed New Haven dancing teacher (Elizabeth Taylor), who is out to hook a blase Broadway agent (Larry Parks). In the course of her campaign, she 1) annoys him by publicly announcing their nonexistent engagement, 2) gets him tangled up in a troupe of twirling moppets at a dance recital, 3) taunts him with being a "flesh peddler." Elizabeth Taylor, ineptly striving for comic form, reveals a photogenic figure, but Parks falls flat on his farce. Completed early in 1951, Love Is Better Than Ever...
Just for the record, a Manhattan reporter asked Ava Gardner how she liked married life on the third try. Frankly, said Ava, "I thought I was going to be blase -_. . but now when people call me Mrs. Sinatra, I break out into a fit of giggles . . . When I was younger, I used to think how wonderful it would be to have four sons. But I'm 28 now. It's too late for such a large family. I think I can be happy with two, maybe three kids...