Word: sighed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lady Came from Baltimore). What those albums do not contain, however, is the degree of spontaneity and emotional depth that mark Hardin's in-person performing. He has one of the most poignant voices in the folk field, seemingly always about to crack or lapse into a sigh, as if the effort of every graceful phrase cost him pain. His melodic songs of love, loneliness and loss are romantic yet rigorously crafted ("You look to me / Like misty roses / Too soft to touch / But too lovely to leave alone"). This is by far the best record...
...that, plus the Colosseum, the Forum, and the Villa Borghese have kept Papa hopping. For his taste, a movie star spends too much time away from home. When he was asked if the two imps, each armed with the familiar Borgnine face, might end up actors, Ernie could only sigh: "I hope...
When frazzled Manhattan subway riders gasp and sigh, it is almost inevitably because of the cloacal stench and spine-crushing lack of charm that characterize the system. Not so in Par is, where ever since World War II the Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens has been enthusiastically refurbishing the Métro. Last week the latest renovated subway station opened, this one at the Louvre. Parisian eyes popped...
Even before the white backlash set in, a number of other factors had conspired to make the Southern "racial situation" less visible than it had been in the '50's. After the civil rights acts passed in the early '60's, most Northern whites breathed a sigh of moral relief. Most of the tangible evidences of bigotry were gone: federal inspectors found few "Colored" drinking fountains left. The "White Only" posters were reluctantly removed from the train stations and busses; the black names made their way onto the voting lists; and whites and blacks settled down to the teeth-gritting...
...triumphant as an Everyman isolated from the humanity he can reach but not touch. With galvanic, Chaplinesque gestures, he makes his inarticulate mouth seem to shout his agonies; when he "talks" to himself, he speaks sign language with a weary, resigned accent that makes his fingers seem to sigh...