Word: dems
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Elkin's Heaven? A celestial froth of every storybook cliché. It is a theme park of pearly gates, angels with harps, ambrosia, manna, a Heavenly choir that sings, "Oh dem golden slippers" and a St. Peter who answers a would-be club member's wonderment with a snobby "We like it." Peter is not entirely accurate. There are lonely child musicians whom God has untimely plucked because he likes a tune now and then. And there are tensions in the best of families...
...energy and not their individuality that shone. Der Manuelian made "It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing" both the opening and closing number. It served well--the chorus has an unforgettable tune, and "doo-wah, doo-wah"s, too. Another group number, "Ring Dem Bells," smartly choreographed and lively, gave Joe Orlando and his colleagues a chance to show their skill with batons, which they politely refused--passing the props onto the stage, across it and off again without any twirling...
There is also a touristy foray to America, in which the windswept Bergen gets to ride a San Francisco cable car. The scene looks like a Rice-A-Roni com mercial. As Antonioni abundantly dem onstrated in Zabriskie Point, Italian di rectors should keep their distance from the U.S. The California air makes them go haywire...
...either. Cross the East River from Manhattan into Brooklyn on the D train and all you'll see will be run-down houses, grimy and depressing factories, litter-lined streets and people. Three million people. Italian, Black, Jewish, Hispanic, Irish people. And not one of them ever said dese, dem, dose in his life...
...matter how far the Old South recedes into shadow and dust, the money seekers will always pull back the Faulknerian mansions and moss to show the glorious past. Y'all smell dem magnolias, honey? Edgar H. de Lesseps Arlington...