Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Happily, Composer Aden's score, here modestly intricate, there suddenly lyrical, has more individual appeal and island charm than routine tropical heat. The entertaining lyrics in Jamaica are never once belted out, nor are the tunes whistled afterwards in the lobby. A show so lightly strummed, so insouciantly strutted, so frilled and beflowered needs to be stylish. Jack Cole's pictorial dances, Oliver Smith's airy sets. Miles White's gorgeous costumes give it style. If it has almost no Broadway snap, it has even less Broadway brassiness. If this is a Jamaica with little ginger...
...Court Appeal. In Sydney. Australia, District Judge Eric Clegg ordered a new trial after a juror winked at a woman witness, despite the juror's explanation: "I caught the lady's eye, and my mother taught me it was polite to acknowledge a greeting...
...Observatory was clearly understaffed for the work it had been called upon to do. But it was a government project, and in government offices authorizations for hiring additional personnel come slowly. A few days later, desperate and sleepless, White issued an appeal for volunteer aid from University students...
...seemed to be taking a hand in the matter: the Red lawyer was killed by a train when his taxi stalled on a railroad crossing. At long last the Indonesian court ruled hastily that Pak Murah and his Communists must vacate the premises forthwith. The Reds promptly filed an appeal. Last week both factions were sitting tight awaiting the final decision, but the prostitutes had gone, and the sacred pool had once again been restored to the service of Allah...
...Glee Club's proposed trip to the Brussels World Fair and to the Vienna Choral Festival this summer has been cancelled, following the rejection of the group's appeal for federal...