Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...acting was smooth, the staging deft; Robert Allan's set was tasteful, but the play was lousy...
When halfback Vic Gatto takes a handoff, he hits the line at almost his full running speed. Churning into the opposing secondary, he dupes one defender with a smooth body fake and changes speed two or three times...
...Todd was killed in a plane crash: "Mike is dead now, and I am alive"). Many psychologists who have no quarrel with the life-must-continue attitude are dubious about the decline in expression of grief. Psychology Professor Harry W. Martin of Texas Southwestern Medical School deplores the "slick, smooth operation of easing the corpse out, but saying no to weeping and wailing and expressing grief and loneliness. What effect does this have on us psychologically? It may mean that we have to mourn covertly, by subterfuge-perhaps in various degrees of depression, perhaps in mad flights of activity, perhaps...
...naked boys, all of them 13 years old, stand in a darkened shed. "Go ahead, number three," says the Chief. Number three swings a kitten high above his head and slams it at a log. The Chief, wearing a pair of rubber gloves, scissors a long smooth cut in the skin, "exposes the large, red-black liver and unwinds the immaculate bow els. Steam rises. He gropes in the abdominal cavity and plucks from it the tiny ruby heart...
...beget kittens, frauleins beget G.I. issue from the Army of Occupation, bad jokes beget worse ones, and Producer-Director Gottfried Reinhardt (whose wife, Silvia, perpetrated the scenario) underscores the ironies by barreling in beer-hall background music. Actor Redford, a winner on Broadway (Barefoot in the Park), overworks his smooth, stagy comedy style to diminishing effect. Working even harder, Actor Connors curiously resembles those lacquered leading men who proliferated in Hollywood during the '40s while everyone else was away...