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...sound they produced was clean, relaxed, admirably unblurred. The music for the most part was richly ornamented, to take full advantage of the presence of 20 fingers on 88 keys. Demus and Badura-Skoda executed filigreed turns of Mozart, trickily syncopated rhythms of Hindemith, florid, zestful melodies of Schubert with a fine fluency and flair. Each throttled his individual sound, avoiding the pounding effect that often afflicts duo pianists playing on separate instruments...
...harsh and guttural, an eye for the tarnished and messy, and too much of a mind for both. So crammed is his scene with lives near precipices and gutters as to cry out for someone merely in a rut. His people, as they talk and philosophize, become embarrassingly florid. His heroine is both a Jazz Age and a Beat Generation type: the self-pitying, self-dramatizing, greedily restless girl who destroys others on the way to destroying herself. But the play's realistic-romantic approach to her is blurred and unsure...
...announces calmly. "In the part of Dublin I come from it's no disgrace to get drunk. It's an achievement." Followed by a horde of slum urchins begging sixpence ("Their standard of living has gone up with mine; they used to be content with pennies"), his florid, stocky figure heads out for the boozer before n a.m. He "gargles" whisky and porter the rest of the day, while heaving beguiling blarney to friends and freeloaders: "Do you know I'm a shareholder in the Daily Worker? But I can't afford to write...
Behind the massive walnut desk in Richmond's proud, Ionic-fronted Capitol, designed by Thomas Jefferson in 1785, sat florid, heavy-shouldered J. (for James) Lindsay Almond Jr., 66th Governor of Virginia in the line of Jefferson, Patrick Henry, James Monroe, John Tyler and Harry Flood Byrd. He had, he admitted, been under "continuous pressure." Just the night before, he and his wife had been awakened several times by telephone calls: "She'd jump up so I could get some sleep, and I jumped up so she could get some rest. Usually, it meant that both...
...British tourist from flopping hat brim to suede shoes, Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd-hung with beach robe, towel, goggles, slippers and a florid sports shirt-headed for the beach on Spain's Costa Brava...