Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Julie Christie would be the picture's saving grace if she had more to do or say in it. Geraldine Chaplin might as well start her career all over again; certainly no one should hold this first role against her. Actually, Zhivago's only well-thought-out role falls to Rod Steiger, who makes the most of it and--by way of reward--gets to take Julie Christie off into Siberia...
...playing throughout the concert was of rare spirit and accomplishment. The Elgar, however, made clear that these aren't the Cleveland Orchestra strings in precision or tone. Munch's gestures were both beautiful and highly effective, though almost casual and spontaneous. It is a great pleasure to find dignity, grace, and conviction once again on the podium at Symphony Hall...
...high school senior from Colorado Springs. Shy and a homebody, daughter of an itinerant newspaper pressman, Peggy did not even learn to skate until she was nine. When she won her first (of three) U.S. championship in 1964, experts were as impressed by her girlish grace and pleasant looks as by her acrobatics and technique. "Peggy is not a fiery skater," said Dick Button. "She is a delicate lady on the ice." And at Davos, it figured to take more than delicacy to surpass Canada's defending champion Petra Burka. Only four times in the 60-year history...
...book is written in the present tense, an irritating literary affectation as a rule. Here the device becomes a knob opening a door to the trancelike continuum of childhood-particularly that of the magic child Huia, with her ancestral talisman, a carved greenstone, and the grace of an imagination that has been touched by the best in two worlds. Sylvia Ashton-Warner does other things easily that most current writers would not attempt to contrive. Huia watches a fight between a brown-skin Maori and a white boy. They are not fighting for status, or out of racial bitterness...
Inscribed replicas of the original Hasty Pudding Kettle have already been presented to Grace Kelly, Gertrude Lawrence, Debby Reynolds, Jane Fonda, Joanne Woodward, Shirley MacLaine, Rosalind Russell, and Miss Remick...