Word: leaning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...understand the screenwriters' efforts to scrape the tarnish from poor Launcelot's soul. And it is clear that they had to pare down the number of characters wandering through the story to keep within the limits of the CinemaScope screen. But when only a lean-faced Mel Ferrer, a sullen Ava Gardner, and a Frank Merriwellish Robert Taylor remain, disappointment tends to creep in. All that keeps the audience from leaving their seats are the colorful sword-swinging battle scenes between regiments of Round Table rivals and the single-handed heroics of Robert Taylor's Launcelot...
They first saw him silhouetted against a plain grey background on a bare stage, an amazingly lean and youthful figure in tight pants and short jacket, his arms raised in the gypsy dancer's graceful but virile pose. For seven minutes, accompanied only by the rhythmic snapping of his fingernails, he stamped and whirled through the old dances, ending with the crescendo stamping of the flamenco Zapateado. At the finish. Escudero stood motionless, his face whitened and pinched by the effort, as spectators jumped to their feet, applauding wildly. From the gallery, a voice hoarse with emotion shouted: "Vicente...
...events, the Italians had placed one-two with new sleds of their own design (featuring knee-action front runners). It was beginning to look as if the famed Feierabend firm, which has produced Europe's best bobsleds for decades, had met its match at last. Lean-faced Fritz Feierabend had another strong motive for winning in the main, four...
...born Assen Peikov, a society portrait painter who affects a Mongol-style mustache; brunette Novella Parigini, a great friend of Errol Flynn's, who paints sexy calendar girls and looks like one; dignified, 70-year-old Giuseppe Carosi, who lives with his cats in a genteel Victorian apartment; lean, intense Communist Sculptor Nino Franchina, who does abstractions in metals...
...President's proposed amendments are a compromise between what labor and management want. They lean to labor's side, but not nearly enough to satisfy labor leaders. Among the recommendations...