Word: dabbed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nervously, he paced the halls, conferring with Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Ambassador to Moscow Llewellyn Thompson. Then Khrushchev came. While photographers wrestled desperately for shots, Kennedy stood back from his guest, bluntly and openly surveying him from head to toe. But Kennedy also offered a dab of graceful deference. When cameramen shouted for another handshake, Kennedy turned to his interpreter: "Say to the Chairman that it is all right to shake hands if it is all right with him." Khrushchev beamed wider than ever, stuck out a fleshy hand for the pose. The formalities...
Even so, Tunes of Glory is a thoroughly superior piece of entertainment, thanks to Actor Guinness. It is amazing how this shy. soft man can transform himself-with a hank of hair, a dab of rouge and an almost imperceptible modulation of his India-rubber personality-into a roaring extravert, all man and a doorway wide...
...show-after a sprightly start-skitters irresolutely about in a diversity of moods on a variety of subjects, now proffering a dash of pageantry and now a dab of legend, now sending off Merlin early, now calling in Mordred late, here with some medieval jousting, there with a too modern joke. As a result, the comedy comes to sit a little uneasily while everything else is kept standing and shifting its feet. When at length there is no place for comedy and the story moves toward its stormy sunset and final clash of arms, what has been brokenly...