Word: offhandedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...noddy. Lynn, 24, hit the top with a gloriously vulgar clang in a British film called Georgy Girl that left nobody wondering who was the most gifted British comedienne since Kay Kendall. And Vanessa, 30, interrupted an illustrious career on the English stage with two far-out and almost offhand film performances in Morgan! and Blow-Up that suddenly and quite unintentionally projected her before millions of moviegoers as the most potent image of mystery and allure since Greta Garbo made John Gilbert's eyeballs spin like pin wheels...
...that Stacomb boy," says he can tell when the unkempt Novak is around because he can "smell" him. Still, the Evans-Novak style of reporting does not always make L.B.J. look bad. Like almost all the rest of the press, they took the President to task for the offhand manner in which he announced the appointment of Nicholas deB. Katzenbach as Under Secretary of State. But unlike most of their colleagues, they went on to explain why Katzenbach was a wise choice, how much care and thought went into the selection...
Anything Can Be True. Barth's parable is something like Dante's, a pilgrimage within an invented cosmology. Here and there his prose matches the cool, deadly manner of Swift in dealing in an offhand way with the totally outrageous. He is as gamy as Swift; there are some campus orgies, and sex is kid's play to Goat-Boy. Like Swift, who satirized the casus belli between Britain and France as a dispute between Bigendians and Littlendians, Barth parodies today's split between the technologically similar but ideologically dissimilar East and West. Yet his prime...
...interviews, which he set down later in 6,000 pages of notes. His ear and his eye caught everything: Perry Smith's sudden confession in a police car bearing him from capture in Nevada to trial in Kansas; the look of a wintry prairie sky; the chilling, offhand comments of the prisoners-"It's easy to kill," muses Smith -the juror surprised by spring fever into a yawn so cavernous that "bees could have buzzed...
Mitey Master. What makes Carson click where others clank? Besides having a pleasant, offhand personality, he's on top of his show all the time. He can neatly put a restraining ring through the nose of a bore, guide and sharpen the performance of an amateur-like the girls' national skateboard champion who appeared last week. He is a first-rate ad-libber, and has apparently stored away every joke he ever heard...