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...even the cast has a good time. The nurses seem embarrassed at all that flesh showing, the sailors droop barrel-chested across the stage, the officers prance and posture like stiff marionettes, everybody has lousy posture. The production wallows in that bumbly amateurishness of the parents' weekend extravaganza at your kid sister's summer camp. Come to thin of it, didn't they do South Pacific there last summer? Or the summer before...

Author: By Jacob R. Brackman, | Title: South Pacific | 4/24/1965 | See Source »

This could have been an elegant and amusing production. The talent was there. And even as it is, it's enjoyable. But Schwartz has cluttered the show with all-executed tricks. Gilding his lily, he makes it droop...

Author: By Harrison Young, | Title: The Barber of Seville | 3/26/1965 | See Source »

...looked like Ben Turpin in uniform: a massive head, topping out at 5 ft. 4 in., rimmed with wild auburn hair and set with droop-lidded eyes that flashed balefully in opposite directions. He was called "the Beast," and "Old Cockeye"-though rarely to his face. For Benjamin Franklin Butler was one of the Civil War's toughest and most hated Northern generals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Booty & the Beast | 3/19/1965 | See Source »

...sweptwing jet stay in the air and maneuver safely at such low speeds? The answer can be read in the big landing flaps at the rear edge of its wings. On the landing approach the flaps extend at an unusually sharp angle; sometimes they droop as much as 70°. Ordinary flaps would not work effectively at this angle; instead of giving more lift, they would merely create drag as the air passing over them burbled into turbulence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aerodynamics: Blown Flaps For Slow Landings | 6/5/1964 | See Source »

...Eyelash Salon sells models in mink (for $50) and sable (for $80) to customers who want to match their coats. Women like them so much that they are wearing as many as three sets (layer upon layer) at a time, achieving a wild, bushy-eyed effect. Their lids may droop under the burden and their vision blur, but there seems to be no end in sight for the whole blinking business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Lashed Up | 2/21/1964 | See Source »

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