Word: torpidly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Skinner's genial grunts sounded almost melodramatic in the Quinteros' languorous A Hundred Years Old (TIME, Oct. 14). And now Eva Le Gallienne, simply by swirling on stage in a dark wig and a bright gown with innumerable ruffles, creates what amounts to consternation in a similarly torpid drama. She is the village belle, and all that happens is a delicate demonstration that when village gossips decide it would be nice for her to be wooed by the visitor from Madrid, that handsome young man is practically forced into courtship...