Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...though composing the isolated frames of a film strip. A sense of fluid, organic wholeness was entirely lacking, and her uninspired dramatic portrayal had the same quality of something artificially imposed. Young's rather heavy build and stiff upper body contributed to the plodding effect; despite a certain mellow grace, this Swan Queen was far too earthbound...
...Scribner, former New York City chancellor of schools and now a professor at the University of Massachusetts School of Education. "Classrooms should be opened up." Meanwhile parents blame teachers, teachers blame parental permissiveness' and educators point to society as the culprit. "Everyone is trying to pass the buck," says Grace Baisinger, president of the national Parent-Teacher Association...
...hoax. At worst it is dangerous." She rails against the phony cheerfulness of some visitors to desperately ill patients: "Distraction isn't what's needed. Perception is." She advises the ailing to be candid as well but reminds them of Hemingway's definition of courage as "grace under pressure." To relieve physical discomfort, she encourages friends to help on the simplest level: "Cook a meal, do the dishes, mend what needs to be mended, water the plants, answer the phone." To a woman who had refused to discuss her cancer with her husband, she said: "The fact...
...such tantalizing labels as Death and the Compass, Funes, the Memorious and Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius. Despite his arcane references, the aging (78), blind, Argentine author has gained a worldwide readership. His ficciones have also attracted numerous imitators - none of whom have the old man's grace, wit and almost magical skills of compression. A Borges story is like some spring-loaded plaything that unexpectedly scatters bright metaphors for what the author lovingly calls "philosophy's beautiful perplexities...
Spielberg tells this tale with a virtuoso's confidence. He sweeps across continents with abandon, cuts from image to image with natural grace and creates terror even out of such found objects as household appliances and store-bought toys. He also laces the film with humor. In the grand Hitchcock manner, he loves to show his characters passing over clues that are staring them right in the face. For Dreyfuss, he has written throwaway lines that highlight the absurdity that is implicit in Roy's wild dash for the unknown...