Word: precision
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Montmartre Authority. Edith Piaf is still incredibly corny, but with such artful simplicity that the corn becomes completely convincing. Arms akimbo and skinny legs aspraddle, her only jewelry a silver crucifix, accompanying musicians hidden behind a curtain, she stares past the spotlight and pounds honest emotion into some wretched lyrics...
No one, certainly not a professional historian, would dare to box the compass of Churchill's subject matter. His great grasp of the essential fact made him, in power, a master of decision and, in the hindsight of history, a master of the precis. Never has so much been...
Since preparation of the booklet was begun on short notice, the entire publication will not be available until after election but the group will start distribution of a short precis of the pamphlet today. One of the biggest issues of the campaign is how the state shall be re-districted...
The present tenant at the Kenmore, Verdi's "Rigoletto," was filmed entirely on the stage of the Rome Opera House with singers recruited from La Seals. There has been no attempt to make it anything more than a celluloid recording of a performance. No dialogue has been added (and subtitling...