Word: diced
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...light. If the second act slows thing's up a bit, Guys and Dolls emerges a thoroughly good, lively, lowdown musical. Using fleece-lined tough material of Damon Runyon's, it takes a full-in-the-face but indulgent view of Broadway's cop-fleeing dice players and their dolls. What results, if not always authentic, is raffish and picturesque, and though it seems ground out here & there, at least it is freshly ground...
...Elaine) who longs for "a home with wall paper and bookends." The other guy, Sky Masterson (Robert Alda), will bet on any thing - even that he can persuade a "Save-A-Soul Mission" lassie (Isabel Bigley) to go with him to Havana. While the law is missing out on dice games in sewers and Salvationist missions, love gets Sky firmly into its clutches, and leaves him out to make converts rather than points...
...dances, the brassiness of the locale. One or two love songs would scarcely be missed; one or two of the ditties, such as Adelaide's Lament, have lively tunes. Michael Kidd's dances are clean and sharp, whether burlesquing honky-tonk routines or pantomiming the drama of dice games...
...Consul Lucius Mummius visited Corinth-with a Roman army. The legionaries looted the famous nightclub; they tossed the tables, dice, ivory flutes and drinking cups down the 33 wells (where Professor Broneer found them more than 2,000 years later). But the riotous spirit of Corinth survived. In 60 A.D., St. Paul reproved his little flock at Corinth (II Corinthians 12:20, 21): "For I fear," wrote St. Paul wearily, "lest, when I come . . . I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed...
...five kids playing dice on the curb in Hanoi have to be shown that they should no longer be solely concerned with guessing about who is going to win in their own country. If there is a gamble to be made, it should be on themselves...