Word: croak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bosley appears before Broadway audiences for the first time and gives them what they thought they had seen for the last time: the fire, drive and percussion of New York's Little Flower. "I was thunderstruck by the similarity," said Morris. Bosley reads the funnies with a perfect croak, pushes back his coat to place his hands, fingers down, on his hips while speaking, sings in a voice like the one that must have sounded in the shower at Gracie Mansion. He makes the most of his pudgy hands and Little Flower pot, belts out campaign songs in Italian...
Then too there is Clark Gable. No director has ever been presumptuous enough to ask "The King" to act, but his presence alone gives any film the atmosphere of Hollywood's glorious pre-Method past. Gable's voice may croak a little, but he still has the confidence of a man who knows that so long as he goes on playing The King no one will dare play...
Quiet Village (Martin Denny Group; Liberty). A smoothly arranged fancy with the theme laid down in beguine tempo by Pianist Denny, and bongo color provided by Hawaiian Percussionist Augie Colon, who is inclined to caterwaul like a turkey buzzard., croak like a frog, or shriek like a cheetah. Blended with Buddhist bells, Burmese cymbals and the West Indian guiro, these noises so far this year have helped sell 60,000 Denny albums, all labeled like bargain-counter perfumes -Exotica, Hypnotique, Afro-Desia...
...time is 1,000 years ago. Rain drums like a dirge on the crumbling ruins of the great temple gate called Rashomon in Kyoto. Huddling in its shadows are three birds of strange omen-a Buddhist priest, a simple woodcutter (Akim Tamiroff) and a cynical wigmaker (Oscar Homolka)-who croak and cluck chorus-fashion about a hideous crime and the baffling trial testimony that followed...
...easy to see what's in their minds. If I push a button, I get a response.'' Shari gets her best responses with four hand puppets-named Lamb Chop, Charlie Horse, Hush Puppy and Wing Ding-who trade wisecracks with her, play geography and spelling games, croak weekly through 20-odd songs. Shari has a sure hand with animals (at home, in a Manhattan apartment with second husband Jeremy Tarcher, she keeps a collie, an owl monkey, a parrot, and a mink), and on the show she trots out everything from marmosets to white mice...