Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...everything is interesting for a while, just as the first dirty joke of the evening is engaging. But after a few hours, the range of vulgarity has been covered, and anything following becomes somewhat sickening, somewhat boorish...
...Bethlehem Steel President Arthur B. Homer said that, barring a long strike, the industry's pickup in production would continue; for U.S. Steel and the industry second-quarter production will run between 90% and 95% of capacity. Blough said the rate of production, barring a strike, would drop "somewhat" in the third quarter but "would continue reasonably good because there's been a recovery in the economy that involves an increase in consumption by our customers." And for the fourth quarter production "ought to be better than the third." The signs point to total industry production of between...
Perhaps less can be said for John Cazale and Mary Weed, who played the lovers George Gibbs and Emily Webb. Mr. Cazale's hair is somewhat thinner than one would expect in a sixteen-year-old, and at times he mumbled more like a troubled suburbanite than a New Hampshire swain. Certainly nothing could be said against Miss Weed's interpretation of Emily, which became truly moving in the final scene of the play. But she looked "dressed down" to meet the sixteen-year-old requirement, and was simply not the willowy schoolgirl expected...
...nature tend to fall flat. Mr. Phelps also has a tendency to use slight inaccuracies in syntax, under the impression that they are eminently subtle and thus convey a nuance which could not be obtained any other way. Needless to say, the subtlety remains in the poet's mind, somewhat beyond the reach of the reader, and so phrases such as "the chairs obliquely ignore each other" annoy rather than enlighten...
Along with the poetry, Identity features illustrations by Kaffe Fassett (who, says the accompanying blurb, loathes milk that boils over.) Mr. Fassett's drawings, while sometimes competent, look somewhat like a cross between Aubrey Beardsley and Basil Wolverton, and add little to the total effort...