Word: pleasingness
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The movie makes its largest leap of this kind when it crosscuts between the astronauts' welcome in Houston at a suffocating barbecue inside a flag-bedecked sports arena, with Sally Rand doing her fan dance, and Yeager's last, gallant, failed effort to set an altitude record alone...
With few exceptions, Wright's pieces still look good-not elegant or sophisticated like a Barcelona chair, but pleasing and "user friendly." They remain contemporary, a word often used in Wright's heyday partly to overcome the prevailing resistance to "modern" and partly because, like Danish furniture, Russel...
The resolution of he is silliness is solidly entertaining. The seven maids primp and pose throughout all their numbers, including "Twenty Lovesick Maidens We," and the serious self important soldiers march about the stage singing things like "When I First Put This Uniform On. "Led by Colonel Calverly (John Hoyoker...
All the same, this production is worth seeing merely for the aesthetically pleasing rendition by the troupe of 10 actors. It does not advertise explicit sex but merely uses it as any other part of a relationship between two people. La Ronde is perfect summer theater; although the viewer does...
Re your story "Drawing a Blank Downtown" [April 4], a city's personality and spirit are contained in its past. Its beauty is not in the purity and newness of its members but rather in the continuity of its history, which can only be seen through its older structures...