Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...striking exhibit for a 19-year-old. Paolo's muscular sketches showed a smooth, well-developed style and a precise eye for detail. His best were natural subjects he saw at the zoo or the family farm: a furry, tongue-flicking anteater, a nursing calf, a spiny crawfish. In others, he had let his imagination roam, turned out such things as a ferocious sparrow, as seen from the eye of its prey, a beetle, a fantastic, cross-eyed cat, a panorama called Ancient Hunt, showing naked horsemen chasing terrified animals. His sponsors reported that 85,000 people have stopped...
...posed portraits done in his studio, and a second series of free impressions from his rambles around the Continent. The portrait work was bread & butter art-formal and flattering. But those he had dashed off on his travels showed a masterly touch. In a few confident strokes of smooth color, Bedikian could re-create the patient labor of a Capri fisherman's life, the lazy alertness of street urchins, the sag of a dray horse pulling a heavy load. Since Painter Bedikian still lacks the official critical accolade, his pictures were selling at the relatively modest average...
Bing and Connee (Decca, 2 sides LP). Crosby and Connee Boswell in eight light-hearted examples of their smooth old teamwork, including Basin Street Blues, Bob White, Yes Indeed, An Apple for the Teacher...
Pleading the possibility of selfincrimination, Lillian Hellman refused to say whether she had ever been a Communist Party member. Then Committee Chairman John Wood took over. To his barrage of questions, Playwright Hellman, an expert at smooth dialogue, replied that she is not a Communist now, was not yesterday, or a year ago, or two years ago. "Three years ago?" asked Wood. Witness Hellman refused to answer...
Across the aisle from Davis sat Harry Truman's ablest defender, U.S. Solicitor General (and Acting Attorney General) Philip Benjamin Perlman. In appearance, Perlman, 62, was rough where Davis was smooth. His swallow-tailed coat was ill-fitting, and he wore it awkwardly; his heavy features and unruly hair marked him as one of the homeliest men in Washington. But Phil Perlman is a thoroughgoing lawyer. He began studying law while he was a newspaper reporter in Baltimore, was appointed assistant attorney general and secretary of state of Maryland while in his late 203. Maryland's ex-Senator...