Word: curiouser
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...keys to Mark's success are outsized, scooplike hands and a curious ability to flex his legs slightly forward at the knee-which allows him to kick anywhere from 6 in. to 12 in. deeper than his competitors. "Mark's whole body ls so flexible," says his father that the water just seems to slip past him. That flexibility also gives him an abnormally long stroke; in the butterfly he can swim the length of a 25-yd pool with only 13 strokes, while most swimmers require 15 or 16. "I'm slower...
...Hamlin, whose overdue return as a performer this production marks, delivers lines from a play by Boris Vian. He delivers the lines well, and Leland Moss seems to have directed both his readings and actions with productive care and considerable sensitivity to the text. That text itself is a curious animal, at once original and derivative, vital and turgid, intellectually inspiriting, and deadly dull...
LYNDON JOHNSON'S curious remark that, "the New Hampshire primary is one that anyone can enter and everyone can win," may yet prove one of the most astute comments on that event. Like the Tet offensive in Vietnam, the magical 42 per cent of the vote Senator McCarthy commandeered turned the 1968 campaign into "an entirely new ball game" in a number of ways. The primary, regarded as a sharp rebuke to the President himself and/or his Vietnam policy, may actually be an ironic stroke of fortune in an otherwise steadily growing list of political nightmares for the man from...
...award-winning documentary, "Titicut Follies," attempts to bring these conditions to public attention. But it cannot be seen at any public theatre in the country. The film has been banned by order of the Court in Massachusetts, and the Commonwealth has sued its producer, Grove Press. It is curious, indeed, that a film which has been honored in the New York Film Festival, won first prize in the Mannheim Film Festival in Germany, and two of the three prizes in the Festival dei Populi in Italy, cannot be seen by the citizens of this state...
Nancy Boyd, soprano, lacked purity Friday evening and was often blemished by curious shifts of timbre. Technically, however, she was in complete control and in her final number picked her way through a twisting coloratura passage and then leapt to a ringing high D. Tenor Roger Childs was called on only once--to sing "The Roasted Cygnet's Song," which lies in a stratospheric register--and Childs produced the notes as well as the proper quality of a wailing lament...