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...Lullaby and Songs My Mother Taught Me get serene, tender treatment. Many of these songs have been recorded by Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (Angel), with whom De los Angeles shares the title of Queen of Song, but their styles are completely different. De los Angeles is intimate and seemingly effortless; Schwarzkopf, even in the simplest lullaby, endlessly subtle...
Wally Schirra's seemingly effortless piloting of Gemini 6 made the intricate Apollo space navigation seem more feasible. On the way to the moon, for example, the LEM will have to be detached from the back of the command and service modules, then reattached in front. When the Apollo is finally in orbit around the moon, two of its three crewmen will climb into the LEM and head for the moon's surface. After from four to 34 hours of exploration, they will blast off and rendezvous with the orbiting Apollo for the return trip to earth, using...
...minute-and-a-half after Bowdoin's Leo Tracy shattered goalie Bill Fitzsimmons' bid for an effortless shutout with a 25-foot screen shot, starting left-winger Dennis McCullough hit center Kent Parrot at mid-ice with a long lead pass. The one defenseman between Parrot and the goal appeared to ride the slick-sticking sophomore off to the left, until Parrot stopped short, swung around, and in one motion bulleted the puck into the far corner...
Casual as a man singing in the shower, he dipped and soared to either end of his register with effortless ease, deftly switched from sustained pianissimos to quaking explosions of wall-to-wall thun der. But for all his raw power, the brightly burnished timbre of his voice carries a built-in caress. Ghiaurov, at 36, is unquestionably the best basso singing today...
...always, Updike's lean, acrobatic prose makes his performance look effortless: sunlight is "like raw ore still heaped on the upper half of the barn wall," birds on a wire "darkly punctuated an invisible sentence." One sweep of his pen can illuminate whole facets of life: after Joey's mother suffers a severe and terrifying attack of angina, 11-year-old Richard hurries to the homestead to see "a parade he was afraid of missing and afraid of catching...