Word: effortlessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when he leers, he is the naughtiest boy in class. Class is also the word for his partner and costar, Ann Miller. When haven't we missed her long, lithesome legs? The years have left them far sounder than most currencies. Her taps are tops, routines done with effortless style and sophisticated rhythms. Do we miss burlesque, which forms the substance of Sugar Babies (if sheer fluff has substance)? Not so much, admittedly, for its cornball bag of tricks as for its relaxed mental climate, its absolution from thought. We relish its tipsy humors, its panting satyrs and bird...
...George Cehanovsky, 87, a former baritone at the Metropolitan who has heard most of the great voices of this century, Pavarotti combines the pastosa (soft) beauty of Beniamino Gigli with the effortless high notes of Giacomo Lauri-Volpi. Others hear echoes of Jussi Bjoerling's silvery refinement. Pavarotti inmself cites a more recent predecessor as a model: Giuseppe di Stefano, who at his best had a burnished, flowing style...
...production and to those who worked on the original. Perhaps special credit should go, however, to Peter Wolf, who designed three of the most sumptuous sets to be seen on Broadway, and to Peter and Garry Foy, who supervised the flying sequences. Under their direction, flying seems not only effortless, but fun. In one spectacular moment at the end, Duncan even soars over the balcony, an extra delight for those who stay for the curtain calls...
...spikers dumped New Hampshire in effortless fashion and then faced a rematch against the still-unbeaten Huskies. A 15-9 defeat in the first game, coupled with an impressive, 15-3 victory in the second forced the Crimson to notch a win in the final game to stay alive...
...grant. Upon her American debut in 1915, she was hailed as "the Paderewska of the Pampas," and for the next five decades sustained that accolade through her recordings and international concerts. An intuitive musician and a supreme keyboard colorist, the tiny (5 ft.) virtuoso was renowned for her warm, effortless performances of the 19th century Romantic composers, and once won the praise of Debussy,, who remarked on her "rare power of complete inner concentration...