Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...understandably lacked the polish ideally desired; the minuet movement was rather ragged and the first violin had some intentional difficulties. But the Beethoven performance was better than many I have heard from alleged superiors. Robert Freeman handled the exacting piano part with total ease, and Forbes displayed a consistently smooth tone and sure technique...
Folia: Harpsichord Concerto (Sylvia Marlowe; Concert Arts Players; Capitol). An uncompromising concert work (1926) by the composer of the ballet Three-Cornered Hat. The style varies between a toccata motion of unceasing activity, and arpeggios opposed by ponderous chords. The small orchestra sounds smooth through the sometimes ripping dissonances; the harpsichord sounds like somebody jumping on the bedsprings...
Mike Wallace is a smooth professional with an uninhibited delivery; Margaret Truman is perky and unaffected. Together they conduct smooth and alert ad-lib interviews...
...says David Wayne. "What a waterhole!" David is on vacation from marriage and the Indiana Pharmaceutical Co., and Frank Sinatra's plushy New York apartment is an ideal deer park. As the fair game begins popping out in all directions, so do David's eyes. A smooth little blonde glides out of the bedroom; she promises to come back soon and bring Frank some fish. Another goldilocks jounces in the door-"to walk the dog," Frank casually explains. An Amazonian brunette, with the look of a lady wrestler in search of a match, wanders in to offer Sinatra...
...total recall of McCarthy heroines suggests that T. S. Eliot simply did not know the first thing about what lovely women do when they stoop to folly. They do not-in McCarthy books-smooth their hair with automatic hand and put a record on the gramophone. They are the gramophone. They come out of the clinches monologizing as they attempt to rearrange reality in a more comfortable shape, pat the pillows and make a man wish he had curled up instead with a good book. Old-fashioned readers may feel that Author McCarthy is adopting the classic line...