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...brother of Lyricist Dorothy (Sweet Charity) Fields, a one time screenwriter who in 1940 teamed with Jerome Chodorov to adapt stories for the stage, turned out such comedies as My Sister Eileen and Junior Miss, later wrote the librettos for hit musicals Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (with Anita Loos) and Flower Drum Song (with Oscar Hammerstein); of a heart attack; in Los Angeles...
...CACTUS FLOWER is a French bonbon oozing with sex. Barry Nelson is a sybaritic dentist who is affair-prone; Lauren Bacall plays the slightly soured nurse who saves him-then conquers him. Director Abe Burrows keeps this candied love apple dripping with amusement...
...change is for the better, and Carol Burnett proclaims: "Humor has gotten braver; we're doing nuttier, wilder things." S. J. Perelman, on the other hand, says unequivocally: "I have never seen so much ghastly work, even in television, as this year." And as far as Playwright (Cactus Flower} Abe Burrows is concerned, "there is nothing to kid any more. This is the age of consensus, and all the humorists are censoring themselves." If the purveyors of humor disagree on whether the change is for better or worse, however, they at least agree that it has profoundly affected...
...acre grain yields. The cost of such an achievement, according to Dr. Roger Revelle, director of Harvard University's Center for Population Studies, would be an enormous $20 billion, much of which would have to come from foreign aid. Until India's parched acres begin to flower, huge shipments of U.S. food-perhaps as much as 15 million tons a year-will be needed to help the subcontinent's masses fend off starvation. Indians should also be educated to eat new foods, of course, but the education must be gradual. The problem is not just...
With the arrival of Chopin and Liszt, romanticism came to full flower. Chopin, who at the peak of his career weighed only 97 Ibs., was an artist of delicate expression: he taught the piano to breathe. Liszt taught it to belch fire. A saturnine dandy with flowing shoulder-length blond hair and a dress coat aglitter with medals, he combined virtuosity with showmanship, worked himself into such a lather that he would sometimes faint. Women hurled their jewels on the stage and fought over the green doeskin gloves that he deliberately left on the piano...