Word: bangs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MAME is an all-out, smash-bang, pull-out-the-stops musical extravaganza that makes up in show-biz slickness what it lacks in artistic originality. Angela Lansbury turns in a fast-paced performance as Patrick Dennis' high-fashion, high-living aunt. But Jerry Herman's score seems to imitate his own past successes; the title song might be called Hello, Again, Dolly...
...battery of exploding spikes, the clothes hanging on a peasant's wall may be wired to a grenade, and the Buddha on the family altar is liable to explode. Such tempting war souvenirs as Viet Cong flags are almost sure to give their collectors an unexpected bang...
...blue, Brose will say: "Bim bom ban on his brain pan." Except for a slight slackening of the pace in Act II, it's bim bom ban, bang on, all the wEh. Brose moves his pink-nightie-clad bride (Alexandra Berlin) into the boiler room and begs her for understanding. Says she fretfully: "The trouble with getting inside your head is that once I'm there I'm on my own." Brose has been growing mushrooms in the boiler room, and near curtain's drop they sprout hallucinogenic caps. Brose munches...
...Stevens once had a hit with a sappy 1930's revival called "Deep Purple." They spent their time on stage making bad jokes about his virility and displaying her eroticism to the worst advantage. Gaylord and Holliday, a comedy team, did a wonderful parody of Sonny and Cher's "Bang-Bang" but the rest of the time contented themselves with reciting embarrassing racial jokes...
Investors prefer the tangible gilt edges that frame art works to paper ones on stock exchanges these days. As a result, the world's auction houses started off the new season this month with a bang, despite a credit squeeze in the U.S., an economic freeze in Great Britain and a sagging Paris Bourse...