Word: effortless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...These two recordings appear removed from each other in many ways. The exertion, enthusiasm, and depth of interpretation necessary to bring off the Schumann hardly parallel the effortless lightness of the Beethoven. Indeed, the players react extremely differently to the two pieces...
Despite all the media attention she commanded throughout her life, Jackie never lost her regal bearing, her effortless dignity. Her enduring grace was one of the main reasons journalists found her so endlessly fascinating, and so entirely unforgettable. Says Angelo: "To the end -- too soon, too soon -- Jackie was a class...
...stiffness does not matter: the crowds shout and ululate no matter what he utters. He is making an effortless transition from freedom hero to South Africa's President-almost-elect. His organization, however, must work much harder to transform itself from a liberation movement with a history of violence into a modern, functioning, grass-roots political party. Some of Mandela's top lieutenants are learning to perfect their new roles as politicians under the tutelage of Swedish Social Democrats and such Clinton campaign stalwarts as pollster Stanley Greenberg and media adviser Frank Greer. The foreign experts are coaching the A.N.C...
...always the grand finale, has proved the durable stuff of fantasy. Thousands of little girls would like to catch the sparkle from those glittering beads and waft away to the Olympics too. Their elders say simply that they like to watch the sport because it looks both artful and effortless, like flight...
...lighting for the show and who studies magic with Jay. "But Ricky's virtuosity is hidden." The show's scale and intimacy hark back to the 19th century tradition of such masters as Robert Houdin (from whom Houdini extracted his own stage name), and, along with card manipulations and effortless demonstrations of false dealing and three-card monte technique, Jay delivers a limber-fingered course in magic history and gambling ploys...