Word: effortless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...since the great Soviet pair of the '60s, Ludmila and Oleg Protopopov, has anyone in skating so melded music, blades and bodies into a unified whole. Torvill and Dean performed an extended pas de deux in which difficult athletic feats are made to appear effortless, though the beat is so slow that the skaters can never build momentum. Like the music, the movements are eerily erotic and mesmerizing, and even for favorites, the program was a gamble. In winning, Torvill and Dean elevated an entire sport. Afterward, Dean brushed aside the mutters about single-tempo selection: "Maybe...
...brassy and absolutely clear singing inspired metaphors like "a chorus of taxi horns," but words never quite captured its unique qualities. Her trademark was the seemingly effortless ability to sustain a note so long that the orchestra could play phrase after phrase of the melody. Said the Merm: "I take a breath when I have to." What she called her "take-charge" manner was so unlike the spun sugar of other musical-comedy performers that composers shaped songs for her. Among the standards that still call her voice to memory are You're the Top from Anything Goes...
...Crimson played a very sloppy (26 turnovers) game. But, surprisingly, the mediocre at best performance proved to be one of the most encouraging aspects of the evening. After putting on a grueling, heart breaking show against the Blue Devils Wednesday, the victory over Brown seemed almost fanciful and effortless...
Linda Ronstadt and the Nelson Riddle Orchestra: What's New (Asylum). Nine standards, done straight, by a pop queen collaborating with an old orchestra master. It must have seemed crazy, but it's a hit and a seemingly effortless tour de force...
...distinguished primarily for simple realism, a forthright, almost childlike honesty, a command of ordinary speech, a cool and effortless narrative style. The battle scenes are so vivid as to suggest War and Peace, the common soldiers as clearly visualized as Tolstoy's peasants. Unlike Tolstoy's masterpiece, it is all war, not only in the sense that there are no scenes of peaceful life poised against the scenes of war, but in the sense that a knowledge of the meaning of peace is absent from the characters. They seem never to have known anything else...