Word: carrousels
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Adapted from the 1951 Broadway hit, The Fourposter, the musical retains the play's central prop, though here the bed is on a turntable and sometimes spins around like a carrousel. As Director Gower Champion realized, every bit of added motion is essential, since the plot is mired in a clicheland where the journey through life is so predictable that it seems exactly like going nowhere. It begins with Wedding-Night Jitters. Yes, the new groom is frightened back into his pants. Morning-After Bliss finds the couple beamish and breaking into a delightful soft-shoe dance in their...
...suffered little depreciation. Chief Big Tree has so much mettle, in fact, that he traveled down from his home near Syracuse, N.Y., to help the Chase Manhattan Bank observe the 100th anniversary of the first U.S. nickel. The celebration featured a nickelodeon, a cigar-store Indian and a carrousel buffalo. Alas, the original beast on the nickel's flip side was turned into a robe...
...nearby Carlyle Hotel, went through the autumn whirligig of a Manhattan mother, supervising the redecoration of her 15-room duplex, which will be ready in a month or so, enrolling Caroline at the 91st Street Academy of the Sacred Heart, taking John for a ride on the Central Park carrousel. And then one day, she was out with her children rowing on the Central Park Serpentine, where an alert amateur in the next dinghy took an incredulous look, rapidly unshuttered his Rolleiflex to capture a metropolitan Manet...
DAVID BERGER-Cober, 14 East 69th. From a sky of lurid pink springs a flurry of flying hoofs, rippling manes and neighing horses on a clamorous carrousel. Their youthful riders are singularly expressionless; it is hardly a merry merry-go-round. Yet Berger's children of enchained emotions project their fancy into a world of living color, an incarnation of their wildest dreams. Through...
...viewers. He extended the action into the flanking panels, breaking boldly out of the boxy frames. The turning necks of tugging horses and the upraised arms of their whipping drivers set up a motion around the spread-eagled saint that sweeps through the three panels like a deadly carrousel, binding them together more than the folding altarpiece's hinges. In depicting the Dark Ages torture of a martyr, the unknown painter of Flanders was stepping forward artistically into the awakening Renaissance...