Word: barretts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Free Fall. In Santa Ana. Calif., after he and ten other prisoners escaped by way of the jail roof, were captured. James E. Barrett alibied: "There was a hole in the wall and I just fell through...
After successive crashes, this final appeal changes to "Shoot the juice to me, Bruce," "Pass the claret to me, Barrett," "Put a gallon in me, Allen," and finally, in a weak whisper, "Hey Daddy-O, Make that Type O." Shocked by all the claret, NBC and ABC banned the song, but Transfusion sold half a million records in two weeks, is now inching toward the million mark. As Nervous Norvus ("I invented Nervous; I'm the cat that invented that"), Drake found himself famous. He has since produced another hit called Ape Call. "The pterodactyl was a flyin...
...might fall in less capable hands. The Ferrovius of Robert Evans is wonderfully full and strong, yet fully cognizant of the weakness forced upon him by an overactive conscience. The Christian Lavinia, blown first this way and then that by her emotions, is given stature and grace by Laurinda Barrett, in a performance notable for the clarity of its projection of constantly shifting moods and attitudes. Of the others, Louis Edmonds is properly virile in the unrewarding part of the "handsome captain," and Stanley Jay as Spintho has perhaps the best single comic moment in the play and makes...
...Barrett mourned the passing of the "snotty young man who could be counted on to throw bricks when needed" into what he termed the "academic...
However, there were soon others to contradict these points of view. William Barrett, formerly of Partisan Review, questioned the idea of freedom somewhat when he claimed that "the poets belong to the Little Magazine; they have no place else...