Word: cancan
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...Freudian treatment of La Fontaine, tells of a cat's metamorphosis into a woman of feline charm who turns at night into a rooftop mehitabel; the other shows Pan thwarted in a sneaky attempt to teach Chloe the art of love-and ends with a riproaring, garter-snapping cancan. The ideal musiquette combined an ironic exposition of human foibles with a lusty, busty display of wenches who did not earn their keep by dancing. Offenbach, after all, was addressing a culture whose upper class was embarked on a carnival that lasted a whole generation. He had the good sense...
...girl beneath the wig, rice powder and rubber eyelids was Hollywood's Shirley MacLaine, the rowdy, redheaded comedienne (CanCan, The Apartment) whose behavior, both on and off screen, is more gusher than geisha. She downed her sake like a longshoreman and sneezed into the hot towels. But in three strenuous days last week, she became a creditable novice at the famed Gion geisha school. The reason she is pretending to be a geisha is that she has a role in a movie in which she will portray an American actress pretending to be a geisha. And the reason...
...were already shuttering up, Blackpool began the biggest six weeks of its season, a grand finale known as the "Street Illuminations," when the city's thoroughfares are a carnival of flamboyant tableaux, ranging this year from a lurid facsimile of Botticelli's Birth oj Venus to a cancan...
...least of which is that Frankie got there first. They met on the set of Can-Can. She was "terrified of him," but soon she fell for the bony build, that dimpled chin, those big blue wisecracks. He, in turn, was more entranced than Khrushchev by her cancan, and-in another scene of the film-must have got ideas when she slid sensually down from the branches of the Tree of Life, dressed in blue-green moltable snakeskin, a big red apple in her hand...
...some old Porter favorites (You Do Something to Me, It Was Just One of Those Things, Let's Do It). But the old favorites don't make much sense in their new context, and, anyway, they are badly sung. Some of the dances are different, too: the cancan, as it is canned in this picture, is a more sanitary matter than the original Parisian routine-a noisy, sweaty predecessor of the striptease, with a name that is one of the more notorious puns in the French language...