Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...producing an entertaining film--and address the other two only cursorily, if at all; while entertaining, the results of such efforts are little more than loosely-based fictional treatments. Diana Ross was wonderful to watch and hear in Lady Sings the Blues, but the character bore only a slight resemblance to Billie Holliday. And the makers of Night and Day indulged in a luxurious piece of miscasting when they selected strapping sex symbol Cary Grant to star as a wimpish, homosexual composer named Cole Porter. It's encouraging, then, to find that in Bound For Glory, based on Woody Guthrie...
THAT DEGAS WAS ABLE to carry off these humorous effects, often with a mere distortion of gesture or a slight exaggeration of a body type not yet fully suited to the fluid presence of a ballerina, rests entirely on his long study and thorough mastery of the possibilities inherent in the subjects to which he devoted himself. In the period that spawned his most successful and intellectually challenging work, he spent years on end in the practicing rooms where the ballet "rats" (girls, often from the slums of Paris, who devoted their young lives entirely to dance) limbered...
...right at 300 m.p.h. to test the ability of the 747 to carry its historic passenger in a stable fashion. At 10,000 ft., Pilot Fulton ran through other tests, including shutting off one engine and lowering the landing gear. Fulton's only unusual sensation was "a slight buffeting" caused by the bird perched on his plane's back. The touch down looked every bit as smooth as a commercial 747 landing at New York's J.F.K. Airport...
...that every swimmer swam her best might be an exaggeration--but only a slight one. In heat after heat, final after final, almost all the Crimson swimmer lowered their previous best times...
...Harvard ski team returned from the Dartmouth winter carnival last weekend having shown a slight improvement over the previous week's finish of dead last. At Hanover they finished tenth out of eleven schools, as Vermont continued its two year domination of the Carnival circuit...