Word: delights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CACTUS FLOWER. Like most Gallic romantic comedies, this farce is based on three things: lies, lies, lies. A Don Juanish dentist (Barry Nelson) tells them with aplomb. His gullible mistress (Brenda Vaccaro) accepts them with compassion. And his waspish nurse (Lauren Bacall) uncovers them with delight...
...World-Telegram in the new World Journal. Except for Murray Kempton and one or two others, most of the two papers' apparently inexhaustible supply of columnists will somehow find elbow room. In editorial command will be the kind of balanced ticket (Irish, Jewish, Italian) that is the delight of city politicians: Editor Frank Conniff, now Hearst national editor; Managing Editor Paul Schoenstein, now Journal-American managing editor; and Assistant Managing Editor Louis Boccardi, now World-Telegram assistant managing editor...
...humored friendships. Noble in reason, do not delight The sounding shark, a prince in his watery night...
Bailing the Boat. Presenting a gold medal to Teacher of the Year Mona Dayton in the Cabinet Room, Johnson expressed his delight in escaping for the nonce from "battles and soldiers and the bitterness of war," praised the Tucson first-grade teacher for having "taken the great outdoors as her classroom and the great desert as her desk." At an Agriculture Department ceremony honoring cost-cutting employees, Skipper Johnson likened the Administration's campaign against waste to "bailing a boat - you have to keep at it; there is no time to rest." Mockingly, he scolded the Agriculture...
...Amid a riot of witty wordage and abundant alliteration, TIME portrayed Merrick not as a promethean, prolific, prodigious producer, or as a brilliant Broadway Brahma, but as (horrors!) the Abominable Showman! Couldn't you have kindly conceded that this charming champion of the theater has brought delight to thousands of theatergoers, given work to throngs of thespians, and made a place in the sun for worthy playwrights? JANE RENTON SMITH Plymouth Meeting...