Word: flawlessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Taglioni and the late great Anna Pavlova. Well above a mime dansante (like Irina Baro-nova), immeasurably superior to a soubrette (Zorina's rating), Alicia Markova has attained to the category danseuse noble, and she may get to be a ballerina assoluta yet. She has a combination of flawless classical technique and an ability to project emotion that bowls over even the uninitiates in the audience. Balleto manes may discuss the superb qualities of her sustained Arabesques (balancing on one toe) and battements de gages (kicks from a tiptoe position), but even the man from the street can tell...
Even for Producer Cornell, this galaxy came about more by necessity than design. She wanted to play in The Three Sisters; her husband wanted to direct it. But they found that Chekhov, perhaps the most difficult of all playwrights to do justice to, demands the most flawless casting, the most balanced acting...
...Druten's deft writing and direction have combined with the meticulous producing of Dwight Decre Wiman and the flawless acting of Flora Robson and the unusually good supporting cast to make a production that is an exercise in technical excellence. Miss Robson, displaying again her complete mastery of her art, is perfect as the English spinster; she is so good that even Jane Austen would probably approve of her. Margaret Dougless is outstanding as an overbearing matron, and Celeste Holm is very good as a breezy actress. Definite ornaments to the cast are a handsome and promising juvenile, Peter Fernandez...
...anyone who has ever faced a microphone realizes that he has the toughest assignment of anyone who appears on the show, and everyone realizes what a consistently super job he turns in, week after week. His sharp sense of the dramatic, his absolute command of his voice, and his flawless sense of timing -those things don't "just happen," and especially under the intense pressure that is inevitable on the MARCH or TIME...
...Europe as well as the U.S. were stirred by the Sacco-Vanzetti case, he was consul at Geneva. One night an ominous crowd gathered in front of the consulate, shouted imprecations against "American killers." Tuck listened for a while, then slipped out to join the crowd, shouted in flawless French: "Give us the head of the American consul...