Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Michael Ellman's sailor was sweet, if a little out of tune, and Joyce Gregorian's voice and musicianship as the 2nd woman were pleasant when she could be heard. In the more important role of Belinda, Maureen McGuire sang gracefully, although her tone was occasionally a little too tgiht. Her unhurried and slightly restrained approach to her role was effective. Akiva Kaminski was curiously costumed as Aeneas, with what looked like a red Coop scarf around his neck. A baritone singing a tenor role, he sang most of his part with an annoying wobble, and sounded strained...
...Gourmet" happens to be a word that makes gourmets, including Julia, wince. "French cooking is just a wonderful way to treat food," she says in her pleasant, direct way. "All it really is, is just good cooking." It is her thesis that French dishes are superior not because they are fancy but because they are logical, simple and good...
...pages-still too long for Houghton Mifflin, but not for Gourmet Alfred Knopf, who brought it out in 1961, and has been watching the sales soar ever since. . Three Pounds to Go. When Paul Child resigned the same year, he and Julia moved into the pleasant, intellectual community of Cambridge, Mass., buying the house once owned by famed Harvard Philosopher Josiah Royce. One of their first improvements was to redo the kitchen to make it a cooking laboratory for Julia. Designed by Paul, whose paintings, wood carvings and metal engravings decorate the rest of the house, it is a gourmet...
...they could still hear the lines-e.g., "Fifty kilometers to Paris? Hm. That's about 30 miles." Finally, a few coony old film critics discovered the only way to get through this movie with a minimum of discomfort: close both eyes and ears, and think about something pleasant-like chasing Director Clement around the Bois de Boulogne in a 30-ton Sherman tank...
...think we should look for it: if mention of a "blue guitar" and a Prufrock spoof (substituting "Henry Miller-O" for "Michelangelo") are supposed to plunge us into thoughts of Stevens and Eliot, the poem does not justify its allusions. But taken lightly it's pleasant, and occasionally striking, as when a guitarist "plucked a flatted fifth as one might pluck the eyeball of a kitten...