Word: silkenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...presidential palace, France's ship of state had been in irons-sails thrashing, the crew in shouting confusion. Night after night, old President René Coty had climbed from his bed to confer with pouchy-eyed politicians, while ample Madame Coty padded about the palace kitchen in her silken peignoir, serving endless cups of coffee...
...certain technical aspects the performance was disappointing. In contrast to his silken pianissimos, Levy's loud passages often sounded hard, sometimes even to the point of banging. His concern for detail, moreover, occasionally got out of hand; in the sonata's Andante, principal melodic ideas succumbed to the uninteresting bass line...
...year, on a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation). In preparation, Menotti made two afternoon field trips to Manhattan's Mulberry Street to get the flavor of his subject. He writes with absolute conviction in an idiom that was new when Puccini was young. His strings sing with silken suavity behind tender scenes, but brasses and percussion can also rasp and grump disturbingly. Tenor David Poleri (Michele) has a tongue-lashing, show-stopping aria (". . . You are ashamed to say: 'I was Italian' "), and Soprano Gloria Lane* as his mistress has another...
...from early morning until sunset, television turns loose an avalanche of masculine charm that would overwhelm any audience less hardy than U.S. housewives. TV's charm boys range from such veteran network stars as Arthur Godfrey to such local Lotharios as The Continental, who lounges about in a silken robe, sipping champagne at midday, breathing love poems and casting hot-eyed glances calculated to burn right through TV screens...
...camera work is not quite so impressive as in The Third Man, but the picture nevertheless paces tiger-like, moving as only Reed can make a movie move -with a silken glide through an underbrush of menacing irrelevance. The actors work almost faultlessly under his direction. Mason, speaking the strange German-English accent he tried out in The Desert Rats, turns in one of his most careful performances, and makes the part of a romantic baddie into a pretty convincing picture of a middle-aging liberal who has followed the purse strings to the left. Claire Bloom, a wonderfully charming...