Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Johann Strauss's delightful score, notably the famed Treasure Waltz, a melting Act II love duet, and plenty of Hungarian themes, both martial and melancholy. Another plus: Designer Rolf Gérard's brilliant costumes and sets, particularly a Viennese throne room almost handsome enough to bring back the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Heavily on the minus side are a preposterous libretto, not aided by Translator Maurice Valency's English lyrics, and Cyril Ritchard's uncertain direction...
...once, accepted a subpoena to face the New York County grand jury, declared: Payola "may stink, but it's here and I didn't start it." Once, he recalled nostalgically, "a man said to me, 'If somebody sent you a Cadillac, would you send it back?' I said, 'It depends on the color...
...record companies, Clay claims, got so mad at him one year that they did not even send him a Christmas card. "That really bugged me," he recalls. "So the man says, 'Didn't you get the silver plate for Christmas?' I said no. When he gets back to Chicago, he phones me and says, 'Tommy, baby'-when they say 'baby,' look out, because they're dirty -'I'm sending you the silverware...
...Image. If Eartha Kitt appears before her audiences as the feline temptress and Lena Home as the sophisticated lady with a past, Diahann is the ingenue of the trade-sweet but sexy, and eager to learn. When the soft blue lights came up on her last week, she tilted back the high-cheekboned, full-lipped face on the swan neck and gave out with a brassily exuberant Everything's Coming Up Roses. From that the voice could sink to a smoky purr in a slow Too Much in Love or take on a rasping burr in an upbeat...
Tackle: Lou Cordileone, 22, Clemson; 6 ft., 245 lbs. Major: education. "May fill out more, and has the speed of a back. Looks like a pro defensive tackle...