Word: drum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drum up interest in the new, low-priced Dart series that Dodge will introduce this fall, Chrysler Corp. unveiled an "idea" Dart built by Italy's Ghia, with obvious adaptation of Dodge lines. The crisply styled, U.S.-built, front-engine Dart will bear an overall resemblance to its Italian forerunner but will downplay Ghia's racing-car motif for the sake of greater passenger comfort...
...Andy Williams Show (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Among the guests: Flower Drum Singer Miyoshi Umeki...
...Fair Lady and The Music Man are the class of the musicomedy field, with Flower Drum Song a few lengths off the pace...
...more recent work--the mendacity, the liquor, the sex-starved woman, the stud male, and so on. But the most distinctive characteristics of Williams' writing are his vivid and powerful command of language and his fascinating use of rhythmic speech patterns--sometimes lyric, sometimes syncopated like a primitive drum...
...Quixote. (This production even includes the actual dumping of Falstaff into the Thames; and what Falstaff later calls his "kind of alacrity in sinking" is conveyed by a descending tuba scale.) For the concluding dance of ouphes and fairies, Bazelon has composed more droll music--for tambourine and bass drum, with ludicrous oom-pahs in the brass...