Word: sweating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sweat...
...Till then I'll sweat and seek about for eases...
Television cameras, tape recorders. long sound mike poles pointed at her from the corners of the room, klieg lights, ashtrays, notebooks, ties, hot men, closed room, sweat, tapping fingers, shined shoes, winding knobs, leaning-all pointed at her like some mad animal . . . like a gun. All through a blue funk from glowing cigarettes. the faces are dark and there is a menacing murmuring. She had descended into the pit and her words rush out in a whisper of extreme unction...
...Sweat. Of the 18 Lerner-Previn songs, eight are Kate's, full of self-doubt, self-confidence, self-satisfaction and self-recollection. Previn has played a schmalzy Loewe to Lerner's Lerner. As for Hepburn's voice, Previn thinks she's got it. "There's been an enormous improvement just since I heard her last summer," he says. As Adler sees it, "She's like Rex Harrison, only she out-Rexes Rex: you never quite know when the singing stops and the talking begins." It's probably just as well; who else...
...Taylor's central characters perform their own self-analysis. Each is tremendously curious and thoughtful about what and why something is happening to him and why he reacts as he does. The reader experiences with him every nervous blush, sweat, grope, and moment of insight...