Word: effortlessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...opera house, she is in the recording studios. Two new albums, French Opera Arias (Columbia) and Frederica von Stade Sings Mozart-Rossini Opera Arias (Philips), display what the fuss is about -a lustrous amber mezzo-soprano voice with an unusually high, sweet crystalline top and seemingly effortless agility...
Starting off this year's show with a new coach and a roster full of new talent, the Crimson looked a little unsettled at the outset, but pulled together faster than its opponents and ran away to an effortless 24-21 lead at the half...
What one notices most in this exhibit, however, isn't the effortless yet amazing technique. The total mastery of the tools of mural expression, that changes these paintings into calligraphic poetry, drama, dance, music, is only secondary...
Tanz Forum Koln relies heavily on acting for expression; their dancing is not exceptional. The effortless quality that marks great technique is missing; with few exceptions, the dancers of the company don't finish their movements, are off in their timing by that fraction of a second, fail to spark the pattern with the extra inch of height or breath in a leg or leap...
...miles for a can of tuna. Since it whirs along on a two-stroke minimotor with less horsepower than a power mower, goes no faster than 30 m.p.h. and can be propelled by the pedals alone, the moped is clearly no motorcycle. It might best be called the effortless bike...