Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact, it has nearly everything an operetta should have. It has dancing--ballroom, ballet, and can-can, all done with devastating elan. In particular, the team of Gilrone and Star shone with their smooth pas de deux in the Merry Widow Waltz...
Brush Now! Standing at the "hack," Van Epps swung his stone "elbow in," imparting a clockwise twist to the handle. Up the ice it came in a smooth, shallow curve. "Don't brush!" shouted McKinlay. Just before the stone came to the hog line, McKinlay yelled: "Brush now!" The soopers whisked frantically with their household-type brooms (the Scotsmen use T-shaped brooms, rub rather than sweep the ice). The stone slipped on between the two trotting sweepers, snicked the two guard stones away and came to rest plunk in the center...
...breaststroke Ulen says that Ken Emerson is "swimming better than last year" and that Zani is "very smooth, but not as strong." Zani, however, has finished ahead of Emerson in every outing. Finally, in the dive, Harvard has the almost undefeatable Eastern Intercollegiate high board champion, Pete Dillingham. Backing up Dillingham's sure five points are sophomore Pete Smails and Larry Kelly, a transfer from Dartmouth...
...ensemble's perfection seemed to lack only one thing: spontaneity. The crescendos and diminuendos were somehow too smooth, the phrases too surgically sanitary. Some of Shaw's listeners, though filled with admiration, felt a bit like Richard Strauss when he complained to the musicians of the Boston Symphony in 1904: "You play finely, but a little too finely. I want some roughness here...
Gable's mission also calls for hard riding, fast shooting, smooth talking and some of the patented old swagger that endears him to fans. When reproached for ogling Ava instead of tending to business, he replies : "I just believe in living a balanced life-a little of this, a little of that...