Word: ballade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...light, ghostly touch is somewhat lacking from High Spirits. Act 1 foot-drags until Go into Your Trance sets the stage shivering with dancing spooks and eerily flying chairs and tables. Except for a love ballad, If I Gave You ("prides of lions"), the Hugh Martin-Timothy Gray score is uneventful. Living in trial bigamy, Edward Woodward is as suave as he was simple in last season's Rattle of a Simple Man. But the good-luck charms of High Spirits are Bea Lillie and Tammy Grimes, who push the show for laughs more often than it moves...
...fulfillment of all my boyish hopes and dreams. The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point, and the hopes and dreams have long since vanished, but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular barracks ballads of that day, which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die-they just fade away. And like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light...
...onslaught begins under the opening credits. A B-52 bomber nuzzles up to a jet tanker for mid-air refueling while the sound track pours forth an unctuous ballad called Try a Little Tenderness. Cut to Burpelson Air Force Base, where General Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden) launches the offensive against Russia, then severs communications with SAC. Hayden's playing seems extremely right. His Ripper is impotent, a one-man military complex who means singlehanded to save the world from water fluoridation and other Communist plots "that threaten the purity and essence of our natural fluids." He alone knows...
...BALLAD OF THE SAD CAFE. The mismatched magnets love makes of men and women interested Carson McCullers, but in his adaptation of her novella, Play wright Edward Albee is unable to show as strongly as she did the real powers of attraction, although Colleen Dewhurst and Michael Dunn do their best to help...
...BALLAD OF THE SAD CAFÉ. Brawny Colleen Dewhurst is matched with Michael Dunn, a prancing, saturnine dwarf, in Edward Albee's enigmatic adaptation of Carson McCuller's novella. The play lacks stage life...