Word: whisperer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cascade of graceful and sophisticated gestures, all with a slight smile of incredible self-possession. The oldest was 13. The male dancers were much older. In one all-male number, 30 men sat in a circle on the floor, shaking their shoulders in unison, and began a syncopated whisper that worked up into something like a football cheer, while a clown leapt and postured in their midst. In the grand finale a benevolent dragon routed a wicked witch to the deep delight of both dancers and audience...
...Next comes Paris, which gives Director Henry King a chance to create an evocative scene of a hot jazz concert of the 1920s, featuring the alto sax of Benny Carter. Here, Peck finds liquid-eyed Ava Gardner who admits to sometimes "posing in the altogether" and is forced to whisper such sentiments as "Will you be kind to me? I think I'm a little afraid of you." Finally, there is blonde Countess Hildegarde Neff who swims, sculpts and is described as frigid, even though she is just as insistent about her passion for Peck as all the other...
...Surrounding Hawks. Hovering around Naguib at every press conference, watching him, watching the reporters, and watching each other like hawks are three or four tough, determined-looking young officers. They do not hesitate to cut Naguib off in mid-sentence to whisper advice, at times even take over touchy questions and answers themselves, leaving him with his mouth wide open. After one such passage last week, a reporter asked: "Is that what you think too, General?" "Yes," smiled Naguib tolerantly...
...beauty. Last week he "listened" to a prehistoric plant open to morning sunlight. Smiling till his tiny eyes all but disappeared in his face, he had bad news for sentimentalists: in spite of all that the poets have said, even a 2,000-year-old lotus blossoms without a whisper...
...censors were sitting tight on the story of the intrigue that felled Egypt's most promising Premier in years. Like all suppressed stories, it became garbled and sensationalized as it spread by whisper, but this week the outline was coming clear...