Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Love Me Tender (20th Century-Fox). Is it a sausage? It is certainly smooth and damp-looking, but who ever heard of a 172-lb. sausage 6 ft. tall? Is it a Walt Disney goldfish? It has the same sort of big, soft, beautiful eyes and long, curly lashes, but who ever heard of a goldfish with sideburns? Is it a corpse? The face just hangs there, limp and white with its little drop-seat mouth, rather like Lord Byron in the wax museum...
Rigoletto, despite some of the most grippingly grisly melodrama in grand opera, is distinctly dated. Whenever Gilda has a spare moment, the orchestra lapses into a kind of soft-shoe accompaniment, leaving wide-open spaces for her graceful vocal glides and glitters. Soprano Dobbs sounded smooth as cashmere beside the tweedy textures of Tenor Jan Peerce and Baritone Leonard Warren. Her phrasing was always neat and true; in lyrical passages her voice floated with never an edge. In Verdi's showy old coloratura bits, e.g., Caro Nome, it glittered clear and bright as a glockenspiel in a football band...
...Stevenson by as much as 75% in 1952. Only in Missouri did Stevenson manage to stem the Eisenhower tide-and that state's reversal of its 1952 vote was due less to the farm revolt than to a wretched Republican machine, a strong Democratic state ticket, and a smooth Democratic organization...
...State's defense was caught flatfooted on the other side of the field as Woodson turned and began speeding for the goal line. A State tackier hurled himself into his path at the Michigan 30. Almost casually, Woodson hurdled him, ran into the end zone hardly breaking his smooth stride, then staggered and almost fell from exhaustion. Illinois was ahead of the nation's No. 1 team 20-13, the proud progenitors of the biggest upset of the season...
Spiral Nail. Jones & Laughlin has brought out a nail with spiral threads, which has 50% to 200% greater holding power and weighs less than smooth nails. When the "Ardox" nail is driven, it does not cut wood fibers, but pushes them aside, reduces wood splitting and physical labor. Fewer kegs of Ardox nails are needed for building projects, thus cutting costs...