Word: frothier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...considered include talent, hair, makeup, gowns, poise and walk, and conversation. The Betamax affirms that where talent is concerned, Christine should have the contest pretty well sewed up. Her rendering of Bartok's Hungarian Peasant Songs on the flute is professional, pure and austere when compared with the frothier offerings of other contestants. But in many ways she is like a whole new breed of Miss America aspirants, far from a beauty-queen type. Tall and girl-next-door pretty, she is a pale brunette who in no way resembles the blonde, golden-bronzed California beauties of imagination. Says...
...admits. "It was what my husband wanted and there was a part for me to play, so I dug in and played it. If you really put your heart into something and work hard at it, you generally end up liking it." On her own as First Lady, a frothier, breezier Pat Nixon began to emerge, one not above teasing her staff or kidding the press corps, using such slang words out of her college past as "kiddo" and "big deal." She especially enjoyed traveling. "I think this is the real me," she said after one trip to Oklahoma...
This bright circus of a production began this winter at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and it is even better on Broadway. Lillian Hellman's book for the 1956 Broadway production, which had a troubled history, was scrapped in favor of a faster and frothier new version by Hugh Wheeler, with Stephen Sondheim contributing a few new lyrics to the originals by Poet Richard Wilbur. What remains the same, of course, is Leonard Bernstein's restless, delightful score, one of the best ever written for the musical stage. It has a sort of light intellectual jump...