Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Betrayal." After the Fair Deal's high promises at election time, Leader Lucas' sunny discourse was actually an abject confession of defeat. Cried the leftrwing Americans for Democratic Action: "A flat betrayal of the Democratic platform." Anti-Truman editorialists leaped to their typewriters to crow, and to praise Harry Truman's new-found wisdom ("The President has at last seen fit to acknowledge that politics is the art of the possible," said the Washington Post...
Right Role. In the genteel bedlam of Manhattan's Cafe Society (six nights a week, after the curtain rings down on South Pacific), she was making her own solo hit. Slick-haired, flat-faced Juanita just hauled off from the microphone, braced her 61 inches and 165 pounds, and let the customers have it in a full, strong voice that ranged easily from deep purple to high yellow. She moaned Am I Blue and her own Lament over Love, and usually she gave them Bali Ha'i and Happy Talk, her South Pacific hits. Offstage, she had nothing...
Peter Clayton's debut to the Advocate's pages with his story, "Miss Hadley's Lover," falls flat. His account of the struggle of a middle-aged mission teacher with herself reaches the heights of feeling only in awkward spasms. In his attempts to create emotion through language Clayton loses himself in involved prose. His characters lose reality in the process...
...knew that something was wrong. Menstruation had not started at the usual time. After puberty, hair had begun to grow on her face, and she had to shave every day. She used cosmetics to hide the stubble on her cheeks, and wore falsies to build out her flat chest. She had few dates with...
Sharp & Tired. Yet the hits of the show seemed to be two less well known Italian sculptors, both in their 40s and both art teachers in Milan. Francesco Messina had sent a polished bronze Pugilatore, done in the old Roman tradition of sharp realism. Pugilatore had the punch-dazed, flat-footed weariness, the slumping shoulders of a bantamweight turning back to his corner after the tenth round...