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...also painted people, and his fussy, glass-smooth portraits of his royal patrons, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, are among the most obsequious images of British royalty ever done by a court artist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Resurrection of a Sentimentalist | 11/16/1981 | See Source »

...Cornona's staging, while not particularly inventive, is smooth and fast, and the performers--Bari K. Willerford, Jack Marshall, Lynn Bowman and Christopher Childs--are terrifically funny. The find of the evening is Barry Nolan, the well-fluffed host of T.V.'s Evening Magazine, as the producer. The role is in the great vaudeville tradition of fast-talking, resourceful, unscrupulous profiteers and Nolan, behind big glasses, uses his deep, oily T.V. voice and ingratiatingly plastic manner with self-effacing cleverness. His line readings are fresh and unpredictable--never milking a joke for a second longer than it deserves--and though...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Broken Cookies and Bourgeois Mediocrity | 11/14/1981 | See Source »

...believe this, but this is fun," Truly, who celebrated his 44th birthday yesterday, said to Mission Control after the craft achieved orbit. Engle said the launch from Cape Canaveral, Fla., was "very smooth...

Author: By Gilbert Fuchsberg, COMPILED FROM WIRE DISPATCHES | Title: Problems With Electricity Cell Might Curtail Shuttle Flight | 11/13/1981 | See Source »

McCurdy notes that Johnson is not built like the typical tall and skinny distance runner. He is relatively muscular, making him less limber and giving a somewhat less smooth stride than most harriers...

Author: By Jim Silver, | Title: Peter Johnson | 11/13/1981 | See Source »

...three, Randall clearly holds the pivotal role--and presents far and away the greatest acting challenge. Once he drops his smooth line of hip patter, Randall shiftsr rapidly through a stunningly broad range of emotions and motivations, his credo "I feel therefore I am." Depending on the moment, he must be honest, passionate, bitingly sarcastic, or so completely detatched that he can recite with a curiously third-person coldness a list of murders statistics or tales of his own bloody crimes. Lamar handles the transformations so naturally and so strikingly that the audience is taken aback, both startled and pulled...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Extraordinary People | 11/12/1981 | See Source »

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