Word: dees
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Singing groups come and go like May flies these days, but last week a 20-member ensemble called the Million Dollar Chorus came and went in what must be record time: one hour. The chorus consisted of such New York City boosters as Polly Bergen, Robert Merrill, Ruby Dee, Celeste Holm and Guy Lombardo. They all assembled at a recording studio to perform one number, a snappily chauvinistic tune called Mad About You Manhattan. Sample lyric: "A double-decker bus is fun in Piccadilly Square/ But I prefer a subway car to take me everywhere." The idea is that...
...ditty: a popular night for pah-ties, though in Wash-tin, pah-ties are often thrown on Mun-dee, Toos-dee. We's-dee, Thush-dee, Frah-dee and Sun-dee as well...
Aside from the insouciance of the story, the pleasures of Bingo Long can be attributed mainly to some ingratiating lead performances. Billy Dee Williams, an actor of impermeable charm, plays Bingo, a veteran pitcher for the Negro National League who figures the time has come to stand up against the gangsterism of the club owners. He puts together his own club, with some of the league's best talent and with the help of a heavy-hitting catcher named Leon Carter (James Earl Jones). An actor with the kind of power that can easily turn to bluster, Jones here...
...defiantly throwing some dirt in the air? But anyone reading Philos' document may hear a now familiar tone of self-justification and self-excuse: "... excesses occurred ... the actions of inexperienced, untested troops who were carried away in the heat of battle ..." As for the word massacre, Indian Historian Dee Brown (Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee) declared that "when you fire on defenseless women and children with Gatling guns, I don't know what other word...
...movie comes down hard on the notion of its heroine's overweening ambition and demonstrates that a good girl has no time for all those fancy European airs when she could be back in the ghetto, helping her man (the agreeable Billy Dee Williams) win political office. For Mahogany, that kind of moral-cynical, and wholly bogus-is the perfect clincher. Jay Cocks...