Word: loveliest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Island, Ga., they went their own ways for a while on their first night in town. The Veep showed up at a stag dinner of thoroughbred racers and wowed both the turfmen and the television audience by remarking: "In order to be here I interrupted one of the loveliest honeymoons in which I have ever indulged...
...Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure. Consider also the devilish brilliance and beauty of many of its most remorseless tribes, as the dainty embellished shape of many species of sharks. Consider once more, the universal cannibalism...
...technically amazing. When the second voice entered in the Fuga of the opening Sonata, a breathless incredulity came over every listener. In the Presto of the Partita in B Minor, his fingers literally clicked over the strings, picking out every sixteenth note, even giving each a slight vibrate. Loveliest of all was the Andante of the last work. Schneider never overdid the sentiment, and the steady beat of the pedal point through the melody held the music to a moving, but ever-calm reserve...
...have been an entertaining movie, but it is done without gaiety, irony, style or even simple fun. MGM, long the world's No. 1 star-polisher, has mishandled the stars in the show. Elizabeth Taylor, who is just beginning to move into grownup roles, is one of the loveliest girls in movies; but here she is made-up and hair-done and directed into tired, tiresome conventional prettiness. Miss Garson has beauty, vitality and professional know-how. These are all visible, yet the performance is almost never joyous or even convincing. It looks as if she herself is trying...
...there was no mistaking his interest in Marilyn Miller, the loveliest Ziegfeld girl of them all. "I would prefer," wrote Billie, "to think that Flo was merely fascinated by Marilyn Miller, but ... he idolized...