Word: graces
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heat on the U.S. in another way. The U.S. has often had to talk tough to a borrower after loans were granted, to force him to put his fiscal house in order. A borrower would undoubtedly take such talk from the nations in the fund with much better grace...
...professional birdbrain, whose irrelevance and irreverence were fun until Paar got rid of her in an unseemly family squabble (TIME, March 24). Elsa Maxwell appeared for weekly off-with-their-heads chats, chopped at so many well-known necks (including Winchell's, Presley's, Princess Grace's) that Jack was only half kidding when he rolled his eyes and groaned: "Call the lawyers." For a few frenetic nights, Zsa Zsa Gabor leaned over her cleavage and rattled her host into some now famous fluffs. "It will cut him!" she squealed, in the middle of his Norelco razor...
...William Douglas Home's screenplay, adapted from his own stage version, tinkles with a profusion of grace notes that, in skillful hands, can often substitute for a full score. The pace, thanks to Vincente Minnelli's direction, is Pall Mall. Comedienne Kendall cocks an eyebrow clear up into her hairline, twists her mouth into something resembling a berserk rubber band, fixes her rival with a saccharine smile that fairly oozes gore. Actor Harrison, whether falling asleep on his feet during the national anthem or grunting amorously to a sofa pillow, still reigns as king of his wacky parlor...
...their subject Tuesday night in their opening performance of Bernard Shaw's Pagmalion. The limited rehearsal time showed a great deal, to the point that the overlong first act seemed like just another rehearsal. Lines were missed, cues late, and the overall production seemed confused and unpolished. The saving grace of the evening was that the cast and general production improved greatly in the second act but not, alas, before some damage had been done...
...foreign visitor. Australian Author Deane tells wittily and without prattling of the quiet adventures she had with her artist husband and two small sons during their stay in an Andalusian fishing village. Without caricature, describing people and not types, the author presents the villagers-the fishermen who starve with grace when rough weather keeps their motorless vessels ashore, the aging, middle-class virgins who embroider napkins by the gross while conducting decade-long engagements, the rich who choose not to be distressed by the poor...