Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...paralled development within Pierre Bezuhov, and so he is forced to work with his character's huge and clumsy exterior. But Fonda too possesses a lot of talent, and he demonstrates just how much of an art an actor, naturally trained to move smoothly, can make of moving without grace. The least satisfactory of the starring trio is Mel Ferrer, who displays more stiffness than grandeur. As portrayed by Oscar Homolka, the Russian commander, General Kutuzov, has considerably more moral force, particularly in a scene where he thanks God for the delivery of his country from danger after Napoleon withdraws...
...cranny of Sinatra's two-bedroom Japanese house, with its elaborate hi-fi gadgets, Bing Crosby recordings, a TV set that swings out of its niche to front any chair in the room, and a huge kitchen, chock-full of pizzas. Sinatra bounced around each room with assured grace, talking pure Sinatrese. Samples: "I'm very large down in Australia." Pointing to the fancy trappings: "The furniture's finished in teak, you might say," or to a huge Japanese mural painted across an entire wall: "It's a Japanese print, you might say." By contrast, Boston...
With Love from Gracie, by Grace Hegger Lewis. Candid reminiscences by the first wife of Sinclair Lewis about life with the man who created Babbitt very nearly in his own image (TIME, Sept...
PEYTON PLACE (372 pp.)-Grace Metalious-Julian Messner...
...month before this book's publication, Boston papers broke into a rash of headlines: SPICY BOOK HAS NEW HAMPSHIRE TOWN AGOG. The town: Gilmanton (pop. 750). The book's author: Novelist Grace Metalious, 32, plump, ponytailed, blue-jeaned wife of the principal of Gilmanton's grammar school. The school board had not renewed George Metalious' contract, but the decision was taken, said the board convincingly, before anyone knew what was in the book. Still, Grace remarked grandly to reporters: "I knew this would happen. Everybody who lives in a small town knows what's going...