Word: banqueted
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...must have been heading for a truly climactic Hollywood role-maybe as Bette Davis' grandmother in Son of Elizabeth and Essex. Certainly no sane Broadway producer could have thought of her as a high-stepping, pratfalling, ageless kook of an Auntie Mame who believes that "life is a banquet and most poor sons of bitches are starving to death." But that is just what she's doing. She is playing the title role in Mame, the musical-comedy version of Patrick Dennis' novel-play-movie. Mame is Broadway's top musical hit of the season...
...lift her eyebrows. When she meets a Southern aristocrat named Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside, she promptly marries him, goes "Sooth," and teaches the hunting gentry a thing or two by bringing the fox back alive. Mame has gusto, gallantry, and an unshakable philosophy: "Life is a banquet, and most poor sons of bitches are starving to death...
MARK TWAIN TONIGHT! invites the literate mind to a banquet with a consistently ironic, sometimes macabre American wit. So thoroughly does Hal Holbrook immerse himself in the psyche of Clemens that his performance seems like an uncanny transmigration of souls...
MARK TWAIN TONIGHT! invites the literate mind to a banquet with a consistently ironic, sometimes macabre American wit. So thoroughly does Hal Holbrook immerse himself in the psyche of Clemens that his performance seems like an uncanny transmigration of souls...
...wore on. At Islamabad, where Pakistan is building a new capital, Liu planted a Chinese tallow tree, declaring, "We hope that it grows and flourishes like the friendship between Pakistan and China." Asked Ayub, in his clipped Sandhurst English: "It becomes a big tree, does it?" And at a banquet where Liu unexpectedly offered not only a toast but also a prepared text for the press, the Pakistani President-more likely in reference to the meal than the occasion-intoned coolly, "I hope you have all had a bellyful...