Word: graceless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dancing and singing ability. The direction by Christie Dickason indeed saved the production from the usual infamy of operatic performances' dramatic woodenness. One problem, however, did appear at moments in the singing: the pronunciation was generally distinct, but the very effort to give the words clarity sometimes made them graceless or forced...
...must endure the inevitable round of post-mortems conducted by second-guessers who think they know why he lost or how he might have won. Last week it was Loser Dick Nixon's lot to suffer a post-mortem that, for pure tastelessness, rivaled Nixon's own graceless gibe at the press...
Despite the grandeur of its funereal appetites, Hollywood is always graceless and uneasy inside its mourning clothes. Its undertakers are suntanned. Its dead lie listening to Muzak in poets' nooks. Its grief requires CinemaScope-so big, so awful, so thrilled with guilt. When Marilyn Monroe was buried last week in Los Angeles, Hollywood's heavy embrace was forcefully restrained, but there was little mercy in its absence. Here and there, film stars nudged past the line of true mourners to bear their terrible tributes into print. At the mortuary, Marilyn's coiffeur set her bone-white hair...
...mile. His shoulders are broad, his 16½-in. calves bulge with muscle, and at 171 lbs. he weighs fully 15 lbs. more than any of his competitors. Experts scoff at his size ("If he were lighter, he could run faster"), his racing tactics ("unscientific"), his graceless running style ("like a Sherman tank with overdrive"). But they all concede that, at 23, Peter Snell is the fastest middle-distance runner in track history...
...attempt to assess the summer in the final two discussion groups was at once rewarding and disappointing: disappointing when some of the Congolese asked us again why we had come to their country--was it to build a youth center?--and rewarding when we reflected that after our graceless prodding, our six weeks of living together had enabled them to tell us what they thought of Crossroads Africa...