Word: cupids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...confining his highest praise to the words "It fits, it fits." taught him the virtues of a 16-hour work day.* Jerome Kern, who gave him the tall captain's table on which Hammerstein thereafter wrote standing up, taught him-ordered him, rather-never to use the word Cupid in a lyric. After hearing Kern's next melody for Show Boat (the music came first with Jerome Kern; words were filled in later), Hammerstein fired back lyrics that began...
...white-faced, black-cloaked figure of Death in The Seventh Seal. But at other times, particularly in his comedies, the clichés are the devices of a back-country Ernst Lubitsch; in A Lesson in Love, the last-minute, sappily symbolic entrance of a small boy dressed as Cupid is pure Kitsch...
...London stage last week was a ballet born in Bordeaux on the eve of the French Revolution. La Fille Mai Gardee is the world's second oldest ballet (the oldest: The Whims of Cupid and the Ballet Master, which beat La Fille to the stage in 1786). In its present incarnation, La Fille not only provides the Royal Ballet with its biggest smash of the season but brilliantly demonstrates the versatility of a convivial, pink-cheeked, 53-year-old ex-R.A.F. officer-Choreographer Frederick William Mallandaine Ashton...