Word: bloodhounds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...result, though not dull, is fairly distressing. No opera better lends itself to spectacle than Aida, and thanks to Lemuel Ayers' opulent sets and costumes and a $250,000 outlay in non-Confederate money, My Darlin' Aida is often bright spectacle enough. As for the story, its bloodhound violences have more bang than the opera's rather bloodless grandiosities; but My Darlin' Aida is a mass of strident cliches, puerile dialogue and hack vulgarities. As for the score, though its glories remain, they are dented and tarnished by embarrassing lyrics, new bits of orchestration, and musicomedy...
...power of city and state machines declines. Present-day pros of the Bill Boyle-Frank McKinney type tend to have the look of the breed without the depth of experience or the skill of their forerunners; they have, so to speak, the ears and the appetite of the bloodhound, without the nose. Meanwhile, a new kind of pro has been growing in the shadow of the New and Fair Deals. He is usually a smart lawyer who learns his way around the Washington bureaucratic labyrinth and who can, from an obscure post, exercise more power than many an old-style...
Summer has gone and the Beacon Hill red-hunt is on again. Like Rosie, the bloodhound with five hundred recaptured convicts to her credit, the state senators and representatives never give up the chase. Fortunately, they have not had Rosie's success...
...have her husband sent to the booby hatch and was instead committed herself); 2) dramatizations, using flesh & blood actors, of four of the "Mr. & Mrs. Monroe" stories, dealing with marriage perplexities; 3) another animated lecture, urging the superiority of dogs to humans and including that celebrated cartoon sequence, The Bloodhound and the Bug; 4) a live dramatization of The Whippoorwill, one of Thurber's narrative ventures into neurasthenic horror; and 5) a three-reel version of his fantasy, The White Deer...
...LARSEN, 26, U.S. champion, a moody, often bad-mannered lefthander who relies on pinpoint volleys, dogged retrieving and the endurance of a bloodhound...