Word: languorous
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...Juliet. This week the film, the first feature-length movie of an entire ballet, which took a 1955 Cannes Film Festival grand prize, begins its first limited showings in the U.S., will be shown nationally next fall. It has its shortcomings as cinema, and it has a storybook languor that seems old-fashioned in contrast to the fast pace of U.S. ballet, but it makes excitingly good on its promise of a look at the great Ulanova in action...
Malagueña (Caterina Valente; Decca). A combination of German Weltschmerz and Latin languor that is not so odd as it seems. Songstress Valente was - born in Paris of an Italian father and a French mother, and lives in Germany. She sings Ernesto Lecuona's famous Cuban ditty in German with an elegant background of ghostly strings, muted brasses and castanets, and the result is stunning. Bestseller bound...
...gives it playfulness makes it decidedly slight. Never robust, the plot consistently thins: from the rivalry of the bordello madams emerge no comic explosions, nor any satiric didoes from the gentility of the girls. In the second half, House of Flowers craves a sea breeze to dispel its island languor, a human note for its doll-like, bird-like world...
...germanium transistor, now five years old, has reached a ripe, mature age as electronic gadgets grow. But, asked the Philco Corp.'s Director of Research Donald G. Fink, "Is it a pimpled adolescent, now awkward, but promising future vigor? Or has it arrived at maturity, full of languor, surrounded by disappointments...
...eyelid had virtually been torn away. Gasoline dripped steadily. He called reassurance to the living (seven were dead), sent some of the walking injured for help, and yelled warnings against lighting matches. When he got to a hospital, nine hours after the crash, he felt a familiar languor-what he calls the "warm, soft sensation of death...