Word: beanstalking
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...written by Let's Pretend fans. In some families, three generations listen to the familiar, often-repeated stories enacted by Nila's casts,' largely juvenile. Cinderella, the favorite, has been given 22 times in as many years. Runners-up are Sleeping Beauty, Rumpelstiltskin, Jack and the Beanstalk, Beauty and the Beast and what Nila persists in calling-in near-blasphemous defiance of Walt Disney and the brothers Grimm-Snowdrop and the Seven Dwarfs...
...little consequence to the Quakers. The Red and Blue had played the prostitute among the virtuous habitants of the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference for so long that not its reputation, but that of the N.C.A.A. was at stake. Purely and simply. Penn, to cut down the athletic deficit beanstalk gambled on the support of other blatantly and unhypocritically Big Time schools, gambled on the weakness of the N.C.A.A.--and lost...
Frank Loesser has written six tunes, only one of which--"Why Fight the Feeling?"--is memorable. Unfortunately, Miss Hutton sings it. Astaire dances and sings another number, "Jack and the Beanstalk," and his rendition is superb. He is still the artist which he has always been, and it is an insult to him and to Hollywood that no better vehicle could be found...
...number together. On her own, she gets a chance to hurtle through some galvanic shenanigans, practically no chance to show her more impressive ability as an actress. Astaire's feet seem more facile than ever. In one solo he does a delightful ballet version of Jack and the Beanstalk while singing a bright lyric by Frank Loesser. In both he is nimble and ingenious enough to stop the show. Unfortunately, the show goes right...
...their best, Lloyd's gags have the simplicity and spontaneity of growing grass. They emerge almost imperceptibly from next to nothing and a moment later become a blooming hayfield of blundering frustrations. At their wildest they have the towering improbability of Jack's beanstalk. His props are the natural pitfalls of daily life. His situations spring from the normal embarrassments of a small-town boy, abnormally innocent and awkward, but gifted with a brash, penultimate courage which always brings...