Word: dolls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Airport executives, pointing out that Dallas-Fort Worth's remoteness spares area residents the maddening air and noise pollution of most metropolitan airports, are confident that their colossus will eventually function like a clockwork doll. Meanwhile, more and more Texas travelers are turning to Love...
...Rubber Doll. By now he is pretty sure of a good reception, but he has never taken anything for granted. He flopped with his first audience, the Northamptonshire clan of 53 among whom he grew up. "I wasn't a natural comedian. I was not funny at home. I entered talent contests, but usually the girl in the ballet dress won." Not even this humiliation was lost on Dale. He took ballet lessons, along with a course in "eccentric dancing"-an outre British art that Dale describes as "learning to move the body as if it had no joints...
...audience a series of high card student performers who injected new life into some of the old jazz standards. The two numbers which lingered longest in Sander's hot summer air were, no doubt, Ray Brown's "Is There Anything Still There," and Duke Ellington's stock favorite "Satin Doll." Brown's eloquent tune featured a deep sax solo in the Coleman Hawkins vein by Jim Scales, who unfortunately had to battle a couple of over-zealous trumpeters to be heard. "Satin Doll," a likely homage to the Duke's 75th birthday, started out slow with the trombones dominating...
When I asked McCleery if the suspicious resemblance between the relationships in his play and in A Doll's House were merely coincidental, he acknowledged that Nora and Torvald Handover were pretty strong influences on him as he created the Hardesty pair. He drew a lot from Ibsen: marital strife stemming from an imbalanced relationship, the husband's view of the wife as a subservient partner, and the wife's surreptitious assistance to the husband and his career success. But Hardesty Park lacks the pessimistic and jaded timbre of Ibsen's drama...
...Horizon), the sensations (Last Tango in Paris) and the sensation-mongers (The Exorcist), the uppers (Happy New Year) and the downers (Slither), the hype-mades (The Long Goodbye), the homemades (Joyce at 34) and the readymades (Paper Moon and The Paper Chase--real paste-up jobs), the libbers (A Doll's House), the lobbers (Bang the Drum Slowly), and the cops and robbers movies playing red-light green-light with the good-guy hot seat--clearly the list eludes an all-embracing label...