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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Rear-End Rumble | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Harold Scott, | Title: A Streetcar Named Desire | 7/9/1959 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: The Merry Wives of Windsor | 7/9/1959 | See Source »

...musical comedy division, My Fair Lady and The Music Man continue tops, with Flower Drum Song offering second-drawer but pleasant Rodgers and Hammerstein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: CINEMA | 7/6/1959 | See Source »

Music for a Summer Night (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Flower Drum Song's Anita Ellis and the Metropolitan Opera's Heidi Krall, among others, providing mint-julep entertainment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Jun. 22, 1959 | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

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