Word: ear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HELLO, DOLLY! is a handsome, happy and airborne visit to Little Old New York, thanks chiefly to Director-Choreographer Gower Champion. Carol Channing, as a sassy matchmaker with heart, boosts the show's eye, ear and laugh appeal...
...PRIVATE EAR and THE PUBLIC EYE. Balancing faintheartedness and bravado, romanticism and Life Force, Playwright Peter Shaffer has written two one-acters in which an imaginative boy and a cocky detective shadow love...
...Playing It by Ear." "We had no battle plan, no set procedure for working the convention," said a Glenn backer. "What happened was mostly playing it by ear." That's mainly how Space Hero Glenn himself played it. While Incumbent Young relaxed, Glenn telephoned at least 70 convention delegates. Because Glenn is still a Government employee (his resignation from the Marine Corps will be effective March 1), the Hatch Act precluded active convention politicking. But he received a stream of delegates in his hotel suite, where he signed autographs, flashed his famous grin and made his pitch...
...with no distinguishing characteristics; 'romantic' means 'cleft to the waist.' " She regularly takes excursions far afield. Sometimes she drafts axioms that are applicable to the opposite sex: "No nice men are good at getting taxis." "If your wife looks like a sow's ear, try dipping into the silken purse." She excoriates local hairdressers: "I left the salon at 7:15, by 8 it was slipping, by 9 it was down, and it was not even that sort of evening...
Hello, Dolly!, a musical adaptation of Thornton Wilder's The Matchmaker, has eye appeal, ear appeal, love appeal and laugh appeal, but its most insinuative charm is its nostalgic appeal. When Dolly Levi (Carol Channing), widow and matchmaker, fondles a cash register after announcing that she plans to marry its owner, she carries the mind back to a time when women needed and cherished men for their money, and in a day when wives sometimes earn as much or more than their husbands, that image is strangely endearing. The curmudgeonly businessman who loathed culture, spurned pleasure and lived...