Word: fresherator
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...pantomimic cliché that turns up endlessly is the in-place step-slide, in which a character appears to be trekking across a tundra of coagulated syrup. Considerably fresher, though not terribly pertinent, is the occasional very cool jazz accompaniment that suggests that all attempts to immunize Iron Curtain countries from the music of the decadent West have failed...
...Moore, who says expansively: "None of it was really a surprise, only a confirmation." ABC's shows are apparently more dynamically mediocre than CBS's, for it is obviously out of CBS that ABC has taken its great equalizing bite (see chart). ABC, at any rate, has fresher and less mechanical situation comedies than CBS and with its two Peyton Place programs it has proved to all television that audiences at night like sex and soap as much as audiences do in the daytime...
...most turgid and absurd in the long, confused eulogy of Jean Genet's scabrous Our Lady of the Flowers; Sartre described the book as an epic of masturbation, and Genet described Sartre in some of his favorite four-letter words. But Sartre has lately found a fresher vein; in his autobiographical The Words (TIME, Oct. 9) he reminisces simply and compellingly about his unhappy childhood, from which he eventually escaped into literature as others escape into religion, business, or the Foreign Legion...
Another old-fashioned innovation is that the leads can sing. Heroine Barbara Cook is fresher than springtime. Hero Daniel Massey (the son of Raymond) is greener than first love. Hesitant, ardent, naive, highhearted, he sets the fairytale mood of a show that has to make players and playgoers alike forget the false face of logic. The plot is only a paperweight designed to keep the airy goings-on from blowing away completely...
...last week, as the consequence of a show put up in his old Paris home (now a state museum) to mark the looth anniversary of the publication of Les Miserables, Parisians were belatedly discovering Hugo as an artist. And to many, his paintings and drawings seemed fresher than the chapters on chapters on chapters of that novel...