Word: bahs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that?" asked one bored spectator. Answered another: "Only Senator Javits." With all the glamour around, there was no reason for a mere political pooh-bah to titillate the thousands who assembled outside Broadway's Criterion Theater for the benefit premiere of Funny Girl, the movie musical of the life of Fanny Brice. George Segal showed up in a double-breasted Nehru jacket, Rod Steiger in a black shirt with gold medallion, and Leading Man Omar Sharif in an old-fashioned tuxedo with wide peaked lapels. But all oohs and ahs were for the star of the spectacle, Brooklyn...
Died. Leon Mba, 65, President of the seven-year-old West African republic of Gabon; of cancer; in Paris. As a young nationalist firebrand, Mba (pronounced um-bah) gave his French rulers so many blisters that they accused him of cannibalism in 1938 and sent him into exile. On his return in 1946, he was so well behaved that he was boosted into the presidency after independence in 1960 and rescued by French paratroops when military men attempted a 1964 coup...
...advance notices were not misleading. The production of Patience which opened at Agassiz last night is an uninterrupted delectation and a conclusive bah to those niggards who tell us Patience is not top-drawer Gilbert and Sullivan...
...Rumania, bah! It is neither a state nor a nation, but a profession...
...point, wound himself around the stage. This bumbling hero writhed, dived, lurched, smirked, and stayed alive even to the bitter end. When he was on the stage with Michael Sargent, the pace quickened and the laughter was ready for them before they opened their mouths. Sargent was Poo-bah, the Lord High Everything Else, a tall, grumbling hypocrit he portrayed almost perfectly. When he smiled a rare smile, he wrinkled every patch of skin...