Word: stylishly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from vice, but she persists: "If I don't get my coffee three times a day, I'm like a piece of dried-up meat." Coffee, she sings, is "better than a thousand kisses." A gay sprig of baroque music, the cantata is given an airy and stylish performance by the soloists, chorus and chamber orchestra of Radio Berlin...
...blonde, a bottle of expensive brandy. Close behind, and sniffing, comes Alan Bates, steaming with parvenu dreams about an A-type lady and an E-type Jag. "It's a filthy, stinking world," Bates muses, "but there are some smashing things in it." By the time this cheeky, stylish, mordantly funny variation on Room at the Top is over, most of the smashing things...
Best & Worst. One reason they listen is that Kennedy is unquestionably among the four or five most dazzling preachers in the U.S. today-an oratorical genius with a commanding baritone, and the pace and timing of a Broadway pro. The bishop is also a stylish and fluent writer whose lectures and 23 books (his latest: For Preachers & Other Sinners) sometimes express complex theological issues as gracefully and clearly as did the works of Anglicanism's late C. S. Lewis. As writer, preacher and bishop, Kennedy is the contemporary Methodist who best seems to express the peculiar quality...
Although his country-boy demeanor is in sharp contrast to the stylish brilliance of John Kennedy, Johnson has managed to gain the loyalty of the old Kennedy Cabinet, the trust of his top Administration aides and-something Kennedy never really had-the confidence of key men in Congress. Already Johnson's persuasive powers have brought legislative results: an earlier tax cut, a stopgap farm bill, two education bills, a reduced budget. And almost certainly a civil rights bill will be passed this year...
...inscrutable fact is that raincoats are made to be either stylish or serviceable, never both at once. The customer concerned with really keeping dry is stuck with rubber or plastic versions. Both would look more suitable on filling-station attendants than on girls. They are also...