Word: marring
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...subjects are too large, and none too small, to embroil the Earl. He cannot fathom the Common Market, but he can try: "The lady from Bexhill still bangs away at me about a mass importation of French courtesans. But I think there must be more to the Common Mar ket than that." "Electrified" by reading in a Sunday women's page that a daub of lipstick artfully placed between the breasts was advised as the latest cosmetic lure, the Earl dashed off an imaginary nightclub scene. HE: "I say, old girl, feeling all right?" SHE: "Absolutely dreamy...
...improvisation a beguilingly simple rhythmic sense keeps his left hand engaged with the housework while his right hand goes downtown. In recording studios, where he is fondly known as "Father Flanagan," engineers preen on his performances because his easy handling of the piano avoids the percussive exaggerations that mar most jazz piano recordings...
...statistics or the headlines indicate. In uneasy Argentina. the cost of living is up 58% this year, the peso down 60%. But it is summer in the Southern Hemisphere, and in Buenos Aires the days are blazing and the nights sticky. The place to get away to is Mar del Plata, Argentina's favorite Atlantic resort, 250 miles south, and last week the annual migration was in full swing...
They once were not welcome at Mar del Plata. In 1886, when the seashore city was first linked to Buenos Aires by rail, Argentina's cattle barons took a liking to the foaming, cool surf, and invited their rich friends to build summer homes...
...good director, Jon Walton, handled what is essentially a wordy play with real agility. And if his casting was spotty, it should be noted that a few garish performances did not seriously mar the play just as a few brilliant ones did not make...