Word: bun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Finishing the evening in their native element, the Theatre Ballet put on Pineapple Poll--another premiere--adapted from Gilbert's Bab Ballad. True to the Gilbert and Sullivan formula, tragedy and comedy have play, in this case on board the H.M.S. Hot Cross Bun. Elaine Fifield shows great talent for the comically forlorn gesture in her futile attempt to attract the Captain (David Blair), who keeps a crew of ladies in disguise...
...heavily damaged last autumn when, after MacArthur's amphibious stroke at Inchon, the Marines and the 7th Infantry Division took it against savage North Korean resistance. This time there was more damage, from hundreds of shells hurled by U.N. artillery from the south bank of the Han. The Bun Chon shopping district, not badly mauled last autumn, was now flattened. Ambassador John J. Muccio's official residence had taken two more direct hits. The great red- painted, brass-studded gates of the embassy compound were leveled and buried in a welter of rubble. None of the utilities...
...fetched by governesses; Meg comes clattering up on roller skates, a tense, skinny gamin who wears a big hunting knife and dreams of being suckled by a lioness. When a furtive little man makes advances toward her in an automat one day, she goes right on eating her raisin bun, looks him square in the eye and asks: "Are you a pervert...
...Lehmann fans the performance in Manhattan's Town Hall had the air of a religious rite. They sat devout and mouse-quiet while the singer, dressed in sober black, her chestnut hair caught back in a plain bun, leaned gently against the curve of the piano. Without properties, costume or conspicuous gesture, Soprano Lehmann recreated the aging Viennese beauty with her oldtime fire and finesse...