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...only possible cavil is that the actors occasionally seemed to exert themselves a little too much; the style seemed not quite effortless enough. But to delight a first night audience full of Brahmins who understood no French required a little exertion...
...Morris's fault"), Yoshi Shimizu, who made "all the sights for sure eyes" (i.e. the set, the costumes, and the props), and Bill Wilder, who composed "the heard melodies" transformed each of the obstacles which nature had put in their way into an advantage. The result was an effortless and delightful stylization...
...speak softly and carry a big stick," and he applies it to domestic as well as foreign affairs. Since taking office, his soft words have been used more often than his stick: day after day, congressional leaders have dropped by the White House for chats-and exposure to the effortless Kennedy charm. But he threw the full weight of his prestige behind House Speaker Sam Rayburn in the fight over the Rules Committee, personally calling up important Congressmen to get their support. On his order, most of his Cabinet members lobbied too. Interior Secretary Stewart Udall was caught red-handed...
Drugs? There is no effortless way to control cholesterol, warns Dr. Keys. Some drugstores peddle bottles of artificially flavored safflower seed oil emulsion (polyunsaturated fat), suggest drinking it by the spoonful to offset the effects of saturated fat in the diet. Says Keys: "Nonsense. All this does is to increase the total fat intake and breed obesity." Although polyunsaturated fats are a healthful substitute for saturated fats, they make an ineffective antidote. It takes more than 2 oz. of polyunsaturated fat, says Keys, to reduce blood cholesterol by the same amount that 1 oz. of saturated fat increases...
...finest characterizations of her career. From the moment she stepped out from behind a grotto, her body elfin, her face sharply kittenish, until she tremulously bestowed the kiss of death on her faithless lover Palemon (ably danced by Michael Somes), her movements had the kind of effortless grace that commanded immediate conviction. At one point, hovering in her lover's arms, she reached down to stroke his hair in a gesture that caught the whole measure of the heroine's innocence and fear. Ondine's weakness was its length: as much dance drama as ballet (a British...