Word: cooing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hughes on opening night, bare-tummied slave girls paraded "for sale or for rent," and a number of jokes like, "Call me in the harem; I'll be lying down there," Kismet is often indistinguishable from Harem Nights at the Old Howard. Further debits are abominable lyrics ("We'll coo adicu without undue ado"), a script short on humor of any kind, and except for a rather striking bridal procession, elementary and often drab settings by Lemuel Ayers...
...Reminding herself of the guru's "Truth is in your own heart," Liz looks there, finds she still loves Charles, flies back to help him face the music. As they clinch on the runway, Charles says: "Let's not moan and groan . . . let's bill and coo." And they do. It completes a modern passage to India heavy with First Class platitudes...
...Lawrence J. Schaad, of Logan, Ohio, and Adams House. Physics concentrators are Marshall P. Ernstene, of Cleveland, Ohio, and Adams House: Helen L. Hinrichson, of Ames, Lowa, and Moora Hall. Concentrating in Mathematics is Richard S. Palais, of Brookline and Kirkland House. Concentrating in biology is Elmon J. Coo, of Phoenix Arisona, and Lowell House...
...smoky Manhattan bop-house called Birdland, a crowd of jazz fans gathered to hear a leisurely instrumental sextet skim through a performance that was neither Dixieland, swing, nor bebop. Not even a confirmed boppist could find a melodic phrase to sing "Ooble-dee-ah-de-coo" with, as the practice is nowadays; there was not even so much as a "Man, that's cool!"* Passionate disciples of blind Pianist-Composer-Theorist Lennie Tristano, 32, are much too conservative for such crudities...
...most part the sketches are excellent fun. There are some good songs, including "General Effect," "Knock Wood," and "Coo Coo Jug Jug." Toward the middle of the second act there is a barren stretch of four dull and sometimes insipid numbers that Director Walter Crisham could cut with no trouble. Without them the show would move quickly all the way, and would come closer to a reasonable length...