Word: cowardly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Extraordinary how potent cheap music is," said Gertrude Lawrence in Noel Coward's Private Lives. Extraordinary, too, how cheap potentially potent movies like Star can be. Theoretically, this screen biography of Lawrence holds the most powerful combination of ingredients available without a doctor's prescription: the story of the brightest star of the musical theater; songs by Cole Porter, Gershwin, Coward; Julie Andrews in the title role; all under the direction of Robert Wise, who made such box-office hits as The Sound of Music and West Side Story. Actually, the production is a hollow, frantic caricature...
There is oleaginous Alexander Woollcott, larding it over Broadway in the person of Jock Livingston-without any sense of what made Woollcott the most powerful critic of his time. There is Noel Coward, every precious diphthong faultlessly mimicked by Daniel Massey -with only the barest dash of the saline wit that has kept him quoted for almost 50 years. And there is Gertrude Lawrence, played by Julie Andrews. Visually, Julie has vanished into the part. The pert little nose has been thickened, the hairline lowered, the eyebrows thinned, the mouth made severe and straight. It is only the emotional makeup...
...SMALL TOWN IN GERMANY, by John le Carrè. 383 pages. Coward- McCann...
...NOEL COWARD, with George Grizzard, Dorothy Loudon and Arthur Mitchell. More then than now: songs by the master of urbanity...
...newspaper ads or TV time. Archsegregationist Jim Johnson, a two-time loser for the governorship and Fulbright's most visible foe, proved as inept as he was intemperate. Running against Fulbright's opposition to the Viet Nam war, Johnson branded the Senator a traitor and a coward. So virulent was Johnson's campaign that Arkansas Negroes, though well aware that Fulbright has never voted for a major civil rights bill, had nowhere else...