Word: smoothness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...English folk songs ("God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" etc.) are piped over the loudspeaker after every blackout, and stage movement is held to a static minimum. Unfortunately, radiant Rosemary Harris as the dowdy, embittered Queen looks even better than she did as Ophelia two year ago; while cherubic and smooth-skinned Bruce Scott, late of the Merv Griffin Show, fails to convince anybody that he's Prince John, who, as the text repeatedly states, is the victim of massive acne. As for the miscast Mr. Preston, we are reminded with his every movement what a great musical comedy performer...
Since jumping demands consistent practice, Harvard usually relies on jumpers that have developed during prep school. The only exception in Harvard's history is the current lead-off man Bob Liver-more who has developed into a smooth and confident jumper while at Harvard...
...urban-renewal plan, an increase in the state sales tax and a boost in the state minimum wage from 75? to $1. Under Hansen, appropriations for state programs to combat alcoholism and mental illness jumped by more than 50%. The going has not always been smooth. "My opposition," says Hansen, "seems to forget that this is the 20th century." By the opposition, of course, Hansen means the vociferous diehards within his own party...
...photography and Japanese prints, she introduced cropped images and flattened perspectives into her interiors. In A Cup of Tea (1880), the stripy wallpaper anchors the otherwise impossible perspective, so tilted that the tea service seems ready to slide off the picture. Yet the scene is strictly ordered. The smooth sweep from the china on the tray through the woman's hands to her lips spatially expresses a measured social gesture. The painting, on view at an exhibition of her works in Manhattan's Knoedler gallery, is an example of her ability to distill drama from casual domestic scenes...
Author Auchincloss traverses this somewhat lurid ground with his customary cool style. A writer annealed by the disciplines of the law, which he still practices in Manhattan, he is incapable of setting an uncertain, unseemly or ungraceful foot. His narrative, his paragraphs and his sentences flow with smooth inevitability...