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...jocks say-gone from the charts but not from our hearts. It's their latest single, recorded before they went off to meditate in India last month, and released on both sides of the Atlantic last week. It bears the hallmarks of all their most recent work: a deft arrangement, superb engineering, and a lyric (sung by Paul McCartney in what is known as his "Elvis voice") that combines blithe humor with sharp social portraiture of a hard-pressed mother...
...exercise, the film relies much too heavily on the hero's gnomish appearance and musical abilities: at one point the camera stands still while Moore's trio swings through a long and not very interesting jazz number. Miss Kendall's absurd composure seems more daft and deft than the muggings and pratfalls of the near-hysterical comedians around...
Died. Peter Arno, 64, celebrated cartoonist whose deft barbs sharpened the pages of The New Yorker for 43 years; of emphysema; in Port Chester, N.Y. In hundreds of New Yorker cartoons, the urbane Arno (born Curtis Arnoux Peters) aimed his thrusts at wattled old roues ("Tell me about yourself, your struggles, your dreams, your telephone number"), besabled matrons and their derby-hatted husbands ("Come on-we're going to the Trans-Lux to hiss Roosevelt"), flappers with more booze than brain in their heads ("Ixnay, Edith, I just found out we're at the wrong party"). Some...
Your Own Thing tosses off Shakespeare's calculated sexual confusions with jaunty lightheartedness. The songs are deft adaptations of rock rhythm. But the principal light-and-power supply of the show is a loose-jointed, lemur-eyed young lady named Leland Palmer, who as Viola shows that she can mug a laugh out of thin air, detonate a song and dance like a rag doll in a washing machine...
Jose Gonzalez--a bit overweight from his golfing vacation in Puerto Rico--was lethal in the third position while left-handed, deft-handed captain Rick Sterne, playing four, bewildered his opponent with his spinning shots...