Word: effect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Adams had let the merest handful of visitors get past him to see the President, Persons began opening the door. "This place is becoming a madhouse,'' said one White House staffer-but the result was to let the warm personality of Dwight Eisenhower take wider and greater effect on his influential visitors. Persons also began sending Republican Senators lists of all available patronage posts -and party morale took a quantum leap...
...remarkably ill-tempered reply Sir Richard in effect told the Masai to be satisfied with the white man's edicts, and to accept ?40 ($112) as their cut of the tourist trade. Shocked, most of the assembled Masai withdrew out of hearing until he had finished his harangue, while an amazed British reporter said under his breath: "I thought this sort of thing was finished 25 years...
WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE-"Some episodes are (perhaps fortunately) far too mature for children to comprehend. For youth and adults alike, the total effect is one of confusion, distortion and terror -an effect compounded by the poor quality of much of the acting...
...conductor in Russia lectured his audience from the podium. But Bernstein, being Bernstein, wanted everyone to know the fine points of Charles Ives's 1908 The Unanswered Question, and with help from a translator gave a brief talk before leading his musicians through the intricate, dissonant piece. The effect was electric. So great was the applause that Bernstein played it again. He gave a second chat before playing Stravinsky's Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments, and still a third for the composer's Le Sacre du Printemps, explaining that it touched off a "musical revolution five...
...audience likes to know who is actually carrying the tune. With Lata the moviegoers can hear their favorites in any one of twelve Indian dialects, and her popularity is such that she never changes her soft tone .or lilting style to fit the character on the screen. The effect is as if Doris Day did the singing for Baritone Tallulah Bankhead, Monotone Marilyn Monroe and Tammytone Debbie Reynolds in the same movie...