Word: brashness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grown into a woman fully conscious of her position and proud of its prerogatives. Warmly magnetic when she wants to be, she can stiffen into icy frigidity at any affront to the protocol she feels is her due. Even her best friends call her "Ma'am," and a brash acquaintance who once inquired solicitously after the health "of your father," was instantly frozen with the reply, "I presume you mean His Majesty...
...good as live TV, from the evidence of the first two shows, not all of Gleason's audience will agree: on film, the battles between Jackie and Audrey Meadows seemed longer and less funny, while Art Carney's sewer-born impetuosities have lost their quality of brash unexpectedness. Red Skelton, helped by Comedienne Nancy Walker, took off after that comedy staple, The $64,000 Question, with a skillfully built parody of a member of the studio audience determinedly prompting Contestant Walker all the way to the summit question. NBC's Sid Caesar showed hopeful flashes...
...Somebody Help Me!" By 1912, gags and all, Stengel had made it to the majors. He stayed on as a cocky, combative outfielder for Uncle Wilbert Robinson's Dodgers. He was still overburdened with brash Middle Western corn. He carried his home-town manners around with him, and his teammates quickly tagged him "K.C." The nickname stuck...
...Stars (Concert Hall LP). Tenorman Hawkins is one of the alltime master hot improvisers, a willy-nilly progenitor of the bellowing excesses that mark today's rock-'n-roll craze (TIME, April 4). This record shows that Hawkins' swooping insinuations, his ever-building arabesques, his brash, driving rhythms have withered little with the years...
...invade Manhattan, settle in Greenwich Village and have assorted adventures with the local bohemians, the native wolves and a large part of the Brazilian navy. Janet is decorative, particularly when she romps artlessly about her basement apartment in scanties. but Comedienne Garrett's wit is more often brash than beguiling. In general, the film is callow where it should be young, and supported by dogged energy rather than a bubbling gaiety. In mid-film, Jack Lemmon adds some bracing laughter to the show with a slapstick attempted seduction of Betty Garrett. In this scene, it is as if someone...