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...worst innovation, is probably the new dimension of sex, which was evidently thought fitting for Lady Macbeth. She oils her way up and down Macbeth too physically. The porter's frightening over-eagerness to be a buffoon is also distressing, despite his amusing gestures. And white robes, worn by Macbeth and his consort, the morning after Duncan's murder, are a bit obvious. However, the production should not be criticized for its frequent innovation in punctuation of famous speeches--"There would have been time for such a word tomorrow. And tomorrow and tomorrow creeps in..." or "If it were done...

Author: By Larry Hartmann, | Title: Macbeth | 1/18/1957 | See Source »

When he was only five, David Daniel Kaminski, lean, red-haired son of a Russian-born garment worker, made his professional debut as a watermelon seed in a play at Brooklyn's P.S. 149. Within 25 years, the little seed had sprouted into a big U.S. buffoon called Danny Kaye. Comedian Kaye mugged, mimicked and gitgatgittled through vaudeville and such hit Broadway shows as Lady in the Dark, was carefully nourished in Sam Goldwyn's Hollywood hothouse, and had his own radio show. For ten years of playing to packed houses, he never ventured to play the biggest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Good Seed | 12/10/1956 | See Source »

Ohio's Republican Senator George Bender campaigned as a 100% Ikeman-but Ohioans still thought of him as a bell-ringing buffoon at the 1952 Republican convention, and they overwhelmingly backed Governor Frank Lausche, a great vote-getter who managed to project his own honesty and humility (but little more), and thus seemed to rise above political partisanship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Crucial Lesson | 11/19/1956 | See Source »

...fairy-tale wanderings of a wide-eyed, 16-year-old Judy Garland into U.S. homes for the first time. The E. Y. Harburg-Harold Arlen score (Over the Rainbow, We're Off to See the Wizard) sounded as fresh and enchanting as ever. To kick off the movie, Buffoon Bert Lahr, who played the craven lion in the film, reminisced to Judy's ten-year-old daughter, Liza Minnelli, about the good old days at MGM. If the movie suffered in its new setting, it was mainly because less than 1% of the U.S.'s 37 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Here Comes Hollywood | 11/12/1956 | See Source »

...bitterest enemies, he is a publicity-seeking menace; to the casual observer, he seems a harmless buffoon; to the Harvard administration he is an ever-increasing annoyance; to the Harvard student, he is the source of a possible riot; but to the citizens of East Cambridge, he is simply "Al," their friend and protector...

Author: By Philip M. Boffey, | Title: Hell of a Fuss | 10/20/1956 | See Source »

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