Word: champion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Whipped cream and frosting may a wedding cake make-but not a marriage. Only the shimmering talents of two superstars, Mary Martin and Robert Preston, and the agile hand of Director Gower Champion, make this confectionery adaptation of The Fourposter palatable...
Shimmering Ancestor. Their song bag includes a wealth of old ballads, reels, ditties, jigs and riddle songs, many of which Beers learned at the knee of his grandfather-onetime champion fiddler of North Freedom, Wis.-who gave him his "concert grand" fiddle with a snake rattle inside ("to make it sound good"). In one demonstration song, Beers carves a whistle out of a twig and then plays a tweeting lullaby; in other numbers, Evelyne beats out a counter rhythm on the fiddle strings with spears of buffalo grass or "fiddlesticks." Many of the songs reflect the lore and rough-hewn...
...plot complications. Arthur spends too much time on his dreary characters, barely managing to solve their problems and tie-up the loose ends for the finish. He introduces an English driver (Brian Bedford) who competes neurotically to break the track record of his dead brother, a one-time world champion. But Arthur soon forgets about his elaborately stated plot premise and does nothing with the character. An American (James Garner), supposedly the lead character, has such little function he hardly appears in the second half. The mechanies of the final race, involving the death of a French driver (Yves Montand...
...based on the 1951 play, The Fourposter, is a two-character, two-gun salute to the enduring joys and passing frustrations of 50 years of married life. While the musical is blessed in its stars, Mary Martin and Robert Preston, and in its director, Gower Champion, the book and score are dull pudding...
...paper helped restore a sense of community to scattered Jews still left in Germany. It sponsored Jewish self-help societies, organized homes for children and the aged. Avoiding general news treated by the rest of the German press, the Weekly concentrated on news of Jews and became a consistent champion of Israel. Above all, the paper has addressed itself to the dilemmas of Jews living in a nation that not so long ago was hell-bent on exterminating them...