Word: cactuses
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...CACTUS FLOWER is a French farce adapted to U.S. tastes by Director Abe Burrows. Handling dialogue like a bone-dry martini, Nurse Lauren Bacall is all efficiency in the office but predictably cuts loose on the dance floor, with some torso twisting that causes Dentist Barry Nelson to drop his dentures...
...that American patience is most familiar. The folk hero of American tinkerers remains Thomas A. Edison, who prescribed "stick-to-itiveness" as one of the prime requisites for achievement. More sophisticated researchers have kept alive the tradition of the patient scientist. Luther Burbank spent 16 years developing an edible cactus for cattle, and during his experiments, by his own estimate, had a million spines painfully pierce his skin. Dr. Selman A. Waksman and his researchers spent four years analyzing 100,000 soil microorganisms before isolating streptomycin. Today, the legendary, lonely experimenter is increasingly giving way to teams working...
...CACTUS FLOWER is a French farce successfully transplanted to the U.S. by Director Abe Burrows. Handling dialogue like a bone-dry martini, Nurse Lauren Bacall is all efficiency in the office, but predictably cuts loose on the dance floor with some torso twisting that causes Dentist Barry Nelson to drop his dentures...
...CACTUS FLOWER is a French bonbon oozing with sex. Barry Nelson is a sybaritic dentist who is affair-prone; Lauren Bacall plays the slightly soured nurse who saves him-then conquers him. Director Abe Burrows keeps this candied love apple dripping with amusement...
...change is for the better, and Carol Burnett proclaims: "Humor has gotten braver; we're doing nuttier, wilder things." S. J. Perelman, on the other hand, says unequivocally: "I have never seen so much ghastly work, even in television, as this year." And as far as Playwright (Cactus Flower} Abe Burrows is concerned, "there is nothing to kid any more. This is the age of consensus, and all the humorists are censoring themselves." If the purveyors of humor disagree on whether the change is for better or worse, however, they at least agree that it has profoundly affected...