Word: effortless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rice, at number two, has a smooth, effortless-looking style of play. Only a slight difference in aggressiveness keeps Rice down in the second slot. Alexander, at three, plays Taylor's hard-hitting game but without consistency...
What makes Riding High even better entertainment is the casting of a guileful, effortless Bing Crosby in the old Warner Baxter role of a happy-go-lucky racehorse owner-a part which fits Horse-Fancier Crosby as comfortably as the old clothes it gives him to wear. He rebels against the efforts of his fiancee and her moneybags father to imprison him in a job as the head of a paper box factory. Then, with the help of his fiancee's younger sister (who loves him from the start) and a colorful assortment of race-track characters, he scrounges...
Blanche Yurka, plays is an exceptional actress. Her superb technique enables her to be effortless yet constantly interesting. And her emotional capacity is vast when she is called upon to use it. Of her supporting east, Robert Fletcher is outstanding as her self-dramatizing, self-deceptive husband; Thayer David is very amusing as her testy father-in-law. Jerry Kilty as the moralizer and Albert Marre as an early version of a psychiatrist also performed well...
...reader's assimilation of news will never be "effortless." TIME, however, tries to sift, sort, condense and explain the news by this simple standard: How much effort can an ordinarily educated and intelligent man or woman be expected to use in understanding this story? It's no use saying that 80 million Americans ought to have a thorough grasp of physics by this time next year. Whether they ought to or not, they won't. Until they do, the journalist who wants to communicate anything about physics must continue to explain certain rudiments in terms that readers...
...trumpeter's pianist sidekick, Hoagy Carmichael gives one of his effortless performances. Actor Douglas gives plenty of vitality to the central role, but he is called on to repeat a good deal of what he did in Champion; one scene, in which he bangs a trumpet to pieces and breaks into sobs, is almost a remake of the climax of his earlier film. Having discovered what Actor Douglas does best, Hollywood apparently is determined to work him to death...