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...grinned readily at unexpected or tight-hearted answers, but bore in effectively to clarify testimony. Florida Republican Edward J. Gurney, senatorially handsome, used a deep and resonant voice to pose well-reasoned and sequential follow-up questions. Hawaii Democrat Daniel K. Inouye, almost as melodious but terser, intoned crisp, relevant queries. Readiest with information of his own was Connecticut Republican Lowell P. Weicker Jr., who may turn out to be the roughest and most combative of the commit tee members. Georgia Democrat Herman E. Talmadge scowled frequently but talked the least, while New Mexico Democrat Joseph M. Montoya seemingly...
More important than his choreography is the effect of Nureyev's presence among the well-schooled but less experienced dancers of the young troupe (founded in 1951). Their performance is neat and crisp until Nureyev steps onstage. The intensity mounts, and the dancing, which had previously been clean-cut, becomes dazzling...
...twelve he made his acting debut in a play about fairies called The Goldfish. At 17 he had graduated from playing the "juve" and was delivering his lines with that crisp, ironic, haughty precision that an entire generation of actors subsequently learned not to imitate lest they sound like feebly envious parodists. By 20 his first frothy comedy, I'll Leave It to You, was on the boards, and at 25 he had his first smash hit on both sides of the Atlantic, The Vortex. In this play, he portrayed a neurasthenic drug-addicted son with a Hamlet-like...
...noticed she wore her evening dress, all her dresses, like sports clothes-there was a jauntiness . . . as if she had first learned to walk upon golf courses on clean, crisp mornings...
...behind the crisp smiles and beneath the beautiful precision there are moments, some say, when Nixon is troubled. A lot of people, including Congress, are angry. Something has gone awfully wrong in those parts of the presidency that can't be flown or worn or priced or charted. They are the invisible dimensions of the job: civility and consideration, understanding and willingness to listen, candor and the patience to explain...