Word: artlessly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mancha's surprise success confounds even its most fanatical fans. At least some of that success, in an era of Dollys and Mames, comes from the deliberate absence of panache and patina. But most of the musical's appeal is purely emotional. The artless show matches the naive Quixote, a man who is only truly alive when he dreams; it extols virtues such as honesty and courage with a stern innocence that makes people believe in them. There are only 19 actors in the musical and no chorus line, but there is a persistent illusion of greatness...
...Japanese are probably not entirely at fault for the inadequate coverage, because of American and South Vietnamese security measures.) Even the atrocity scenes, some of which seem staged, do not add up to a statement about the horror of war. The editing is either crudely ironic or very artless: after a long sequence of the torturing of a Vietcong prisoner, we cut to a group of white-clad schoolgirls singing songs...
...Hatter, the Dormouse, the Cheshire Cat and the Ugly Duchess are still swimming undiscovered in Dodgson's inkwell. The earlier Alice, however, is much more than half as interesting; though it lacks the rococo richness of the final version, it has a primitive charm and artless appeal that make it, on the whole, rather the better of the two as a bedtime story...
...pride and pleasure were evident in Johnson's handling of his press conference. So, too, was the new-found aura of presidential dignity, a blend of artless good humor and consummate professional skill. The impression was heightened by his birthday-week decision to wear plastic-rimmed spectacles, which make him look older, instead of the contact lenses with which he has previously disguised his hyperopia for the benefit of the TV audience. As he gazed at the "people eater," the combination close-up camera and teleprompter that all but obscures the President from his audience, he looked...
...pleasure to the eye and ear. As Polly, Catherine Winn makes her debut in Harvard drama, and she is a welcome addition. She possesses that rare combination of first-rate acting ability and a beautiful lyric soprano, and she knows how to balance the two. Her sweet, artless Polly could soften even the hardest highwayman's heart, and we easily understand Macheath's impetuous marriage vows...