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COMEDY IN MUSIC. That matchless mirthmaster of the keyboard, Victor Borge, riffles through gags and slides off the piano bench without altering his usual mask of disdainful dismay. Added notes, comic and musical, are provided by a straight man, noted Pianist Leonid Hambro...
COMEDY IN MUSIC. That matchless mirthmaster of the keyboard, Victor Borge, riffles through gags and slides off the piano bench without altering his usual mask of dismay and disdain. Added notes, comic and musical, are provided by Straight Man Leonid Hambro...
...time the troops arrived, the main Viet Cong force had long since departed. Villagers who survived the harsh pre-assault bombardment by government forces shakily reported that the Communists had pulled out three days earlier. A few, at least, stuck around, as the South Vietnamese learned to their dismay later in the week. Recombing a maze of tunnels in Boi Loi forest, army patrols suddenly found themselves under accurate but sporadic machine-gun fire. Ten Vietnamese soldiers died, and a helicopter carrying wounded away was knocked down, killing eleven more. History's hugest helicopter operation netted only two confirmed...
...face is a pliant mask of dismay and disdain. One never knows whether he regards his props-the microphone, the piano, the piano bench-as allies or enemies. Flailing away at Rachmaninoff, he skids clean off the piano bench, pulls out a neon-blue seat belt, fastens it with frosty dignity, and resumes his musical flight. He also keeps up a running gag with a treacherous watch that tells the day, month, year and altitude ("Today it is the 39th of February, 1216 B.C., and we are flying at an altitude of four feet below sea level...
...seeker was blaming Lyndon Johnson for everything- from the mess in the Congo to De Gaulle's recognition of Red China: "Our candidate has not yet mentioned that it was during the Kennedy-Johnson years that the blue whale became commercially extinct." ∙The Wichita, Kans., Eagle affected dismay after Johnson kissed a baby: "Is it proper for the President to expose himself to the afflictions which beset the nursery crowd? Measles or whooping cough in the White House could have repercussions for the whole free world." ∙The Washington Star was amused by the Johnsonian declaration that...