Word: bores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Turks, including the President, the Premier, every Cabinet minister, every parliamentary deputy, every provincial governor and every foreign diplomat. Many of the 7,000 marching Turkish soldiers wore their Korean war decorations. Ten generals and two admirals escorted the coffin, while another admiral guarded a velvet cushion which bore the Medal of Independence, the only decoration Ataturk ever wore...
...screen version of Annie Get Your Gun) knows how to saddle up his songs and ride them for all they're worth-which, in this case, is not much. Songstress Day, as Calamity, is clearly aiming at the Ethel Merman manner. But where husky Ethel, with her large-bore bellow, can roar out a song until her throat fairly smokes, dainty Doris is more like a Girl Scout with a shiny new Daisy: she's loaded, but hardly for bear...
...book purposely listed and discussed the total findings of the 27 colleges studied, without breaking them down into the different types of institutions. In the fuzzy mind of the reader there lay west of the Ivy League a vast Beer Belt, where drinking behavior bore little resemblance to that in his habitat...
...melodrama dressed in the intriguing cutaway of international incident. Once the curtain has fallen, however, on the unique spectacle of the French and British U.N. delegates sneaking a corpse out of the U.S. delegate's apartment, the play rolls on like a tumbrel through scenes which seem to bore even the actors. Until the final scene's return to the plane of melodrama, the pace collapses completely. Without incisiveness, wit, or much relevance to the plot, the conversation rambles from the Korean War to freedom of the press to the merits of a Brahms piano concerto...
...already in the till. A Joshua Logan production starring Charles Boyer and (in her first nonsinging role) Mary Martin, its opulent costumes and decor half suggest that Miss Martin is still playing musicomedy. The whole thing may well prove the greatest letdown of the season; it is a sumptuous bore and a gilded vacuum...