Word: defectiveness
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...Miss DeHaven reveals only a rather light voice which requires amplification, while Montalban, cast in the role of Chico the sewer-cleaner, is content to speak rather than sing his lyrics. Neither gets much help from the loudspeaker system, which has a tendency to squeal at inopportune moments. That defect, I am afraid, is the only thing which can be improved before Seventh Heaven opens on Broadway...
Robin Hood. In London, Gerald Bolitho was sentenced to 21 months in jail despite his plea that in stealing a rare manuscript from the British Museum he did the museum a good turn, "because I have shown up a defect in their system...
Possibly the only quarrel I have with the structure of the Gondoliers is the absence of a prominent and clever patter song. The defect is, however, somewhat covered by numerous biting lines that can add considerable sharpness to the action between songs, and the cast is quick to find the comedy in many of them. Yet others are lost because, as in the first act, the dialogue has been paced too rapidly and the punch line is buried under the heavy dirgue of the following speech. If Director Richard Smithies had applied his talent in developing the humor with...
...hidden recesses of the second balcony, but it somehow never sounds declamatory or too loud. Miss Cornell's presence on the stage is so overwhelming, in fact, that the other actors sometimes succumb to the temptation to shout in order to make an equal impact on the audience. This defect is most noticeable in the performance of Tyrone Power, who plays the deserter. He projects the surface brashness of his character, but most of the other possible shadings of characterization are lost in verbal athletics...
...September, are now running at less than 10,000 a month. The immigration machinery is running smoothly enough to handle an expected record number-350,000 to 400,000-of legal migrant workers this year. The coyote and his "bite" are left as the machinery's only serious defect...