Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Union conference room or leaning over a coffee cup in the Yard of Ale, he makes a glib, effective speaker. Rusher has a quieter kind of charm than the flamboyant Buckley. He punctutes his remarks with precise gestures, and smiles often. But his eyes are hard, his lips thin, and he smiles with his mouth alone...
Controlling an Animal. But Tosca is not a play; the singing's the thing. And even Callas could not make it otherwise. Never an instrument of luscious quality, her soprano last week was a thin and often wobbly echo of the voice that fled the Met in 1958. Her high notes were shrill and achingly insecure, and seemed all the more so by contrast with the rich, ringing tenor of Franco Corelli as Mario. In the poignant Vissi d'Arte aria, Callas relied almost wholly on dramatic rather than vocal brilliance to carry her through-which...
...orgy of thin red lines, blue smudges and black and white blobs, the abstraction lived up to its billing as the "world's hardest jigsaw puzzle." There were colors all right, but where did they go? Handsomely packaged with a glossy reproduction of the painting and priced at $3.50, the puzzle has found its way into more than 100,000 homes...
...Overcoat. In Nikolai Gogol's short story, as in this brief and virtually flawless film from Russia, Akaky Akakievich is a hunched, squinty-eyed penpusher, ridiculed at his office, who all winter long must suffer the cold winds of St. Petersburg whipping through his gauze thin overcoat. Compelled to buy a new one at painful cost, he talks to it, sleeps with it, defends it against a threatening moth. Next day, miraculously, Akaky Akakievich and his overcoat create a sen sation at work. His former tormentors are now backslapping friends; he is even invited to a champagne party...
...foot resting manfully on an iron railing. "You one of 'em?" they at one asked. "What do you think of the march?" I asked. "Bunch of shabby Communists," he said. "Look at them white men out there. Look at 'em. Why would any nigger associate with them?" The thin one nodded. "We gonna find out who's jumpin' up then niggers if it takes all year," he said, "and we gonna kill...