Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Andrew Wyke (rhymes with "like," but in this production incorrectly pronounced "wick"), the mystery novelist who invites his wife's lover to his home for a battle of wits Sam Bloomfield has an acceptable British accent and a smooth, resonant voice. But his characterization is superficial--a lot of surface bluster with little going on underneath. He has no spontaneity; the words sound as though he has said them too many times before, and he takes no delight in his own verbal cleverness. It is not a bad performance, but Wyke is a tantalizing character--a child clinging stubbornly...
...occasions. Perhaps Sellon intends to play Tindle as a rather shallow gigolo, but he is not right for that interpretation--besides, Shaffer has taken great pains to show us a much more complex, sympathetic character, a young man understandably baffled by his host's odd behavior. Sellon's ultra-smooth Milo forgets to be incredulous. He improves in his later scenes, when the ordeals he undergoes, and his eventual mastery of the situation; give him a harried, tousled, wildeyed look, and at last his archness seems appropriate--but even here a good director should have toned him down...
...Smooth transitions from story line to song, and vice versa, are not the trademark of Lady Be Good; the dialogue and the musical numbers are quantum leaps apart in quality and content. In the first act, the dumbness of the transitions probably can't be--and certainly weren't--covered up. After the title song, the women chorus members are forced to squirm off stage in a clump, giving one mutual twitter with all the naturalness of a concerted burp. There are fewer transition problems in the second act, probably because there are fewer transitions. Once the background has been...
Sophomore year you did not look quite the same. Roth was gone and Bolduc and Ted Thorndike were Olympians. But the magic was still there along with Brian ("only the Lord saves more") Petrovek and a smooth-as-silk rookie named George Hughes...
Before his departure from Seoul's Kimpo Airport, Park seemed as smooth and unruffled as he had been during the eleven years he spent as a millionaire Washington partygiver and rice broker who liked to hand out money and other favors to American politicians. Staring into the TV lights, he apologized for having inconvenienced his countrymen, promised not to "betray" their expectations and added, "I shall return in good health...