Word: underplaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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COMPLAINT: TEXTBOOKS UNDERPLAY JAMESTOWN AND PURITANS; FACT: MORE EMPHASIS AND SPACE GIVEN TO JAMESTOWN, ETC., THAN TO CATHOLIC SETTLERS WEST AND SOUTHWEST...
...power like rough sandpaper against Ken Rosewall's subtler game. The two whacked out some of the best tennis of the tournament. Then Lew Hoad, after a brief, second-set lapse, put Rosewall away, 6-2, 4-6, 7-5, 6-4. Australian visitors were hap py to underplay their pride. " I flew over 5,000 miles to see this match," laughed one fan from Down Under, "and what do I watch? The same players I see in my backyard all year long." Through all the excitement, eleven poker-faced Russians took in the matches and tried some volleying...
...cast of The Ballet of Romeo and Juliet is made up almost entirely of Moscow's Bolshoi Theater dancers, only Ulanova and a few others actually do expressive dancing in the film; the rest is rhythmical miming and pageantry à la Russe. Even the principals are made to underplay the heavily charged scenes. This makes the bedroom scene a little cool, but is a blessing when the bodies start dropping...
...policeman's weak dupe of a son, Donald Richards was much too strong. He stormed when he should have whimpered, but again, he was quite consistent in his performance. His pal, the fascist bully-boy, was done with minor distinction by Peter Sourian who elected to underplay a fairly meaty role...
Breen assaulted his audience with sex, violence, and sounds of foghorns and lapping water. He loaded the script with similes (sample: as difficult as "sandpapering an oyster"). But as the first program began, he stood in a control booth frantically waving at Webb to underplay. The show was an instant success, and for the first time Webb knew the delights of fan mail. Pat Novak ran for 26 stirring weeks. Then Breen simultaneously quarreled with the station management and got a Hollywood offer. He quit. An hour later, Webb quit, loaded his jazz records and clothes into his 1941 Buick...