Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is no easy trick for an extrovert-plus, but he performs it creditably. As he sings, his large bony fingers grope for confidence among the spotlight's motes, or nervously smooth the pockets of his costly dinner-suit; his gangling frame folds into the diffident attitudes of a lady companion anxious to please an exacting employer: in approaching a high note he is the schoolboy cricketer praying to hold a vital catch...
Devaluation automatically raised the cost of imports; that was where Lonardi's proposed austerity came in. To smooth the transition and hold down inflation, the government for the time being planned to tax the more profitable exports, e.g., beef, and use the tax to subsidize the more vital imports, e.g., penicillin...
...newcomer in the story, however, is anything but childlike. Anne Baxter portrays her as a conniving liar who bides behind an assumed front of innocence. Miss Baxter manages to make the sudden transitions in characterization appear smooth and effortless. George Sanders, though, won the only Oscar for acting in All About Eve. His is the supporting role of a cynical critic, a suave and predatory animal which feeds off the talents of others...
Glen Bowersock, as Prospero, gives a smooth performance, but fails to convey the full significance of the magician's own transformation. Nancy Curtis is a perfect innocent as Miranda, and carries off some of the finest lines in the play with irreproachable style. Competence prevails among the other members of the cast, and Jay Shuchter and Harry Bingham rise well above this level as Antonio and Sebastian...
...rebellion. A relative by marriage, Lieutenant-Governor Thomas Oliver, who was a member of the infamous (to revolutionaries) Mandamus Council, also moved to Boston, at the request of a mob of 4000. Another mob, composed of "boys and negroes," persuaded Chief-Justice Stephen Sewall to take his "soft, smooth, insinuating eloquence" elsewhere...