Word: gal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...between the salt and the water. A great deal of energy is necessary to break the bond. Dr. W. S. Gillam, research chief of the U.S. Office of Saline Water, recently estimated that the lowest possible cost of doing the job will never drop below 25? per 1,000 gal. No tricky process of freezing or distilling can reduce this figure. At present, none comes near...
...another straggles onstage. As the stage fills with proprietors and performers and roustabouts, as tents go up and booths slide into place and flags flap and sway, the bright lights come on, the lilting music soars, and the multicolored mongrel troupe parades. Then Marco the Magnificent appears, and the gal he forever two-times; then Paul, the lamed, embittered puppeteer, and the pal he forever snaps at. Soon, a wispy, skinny-limbed, wide-eyed Lili (Anna Maria Alberghetti) turns up in search of a job, falls madly in love with Marco, is unwillingly loved by Paul. She gets...
Gower Champion has staged and danced the show expertly, as has Will Stevens Armstrong designed and lighted it. There are some nice Bob Merrill songs; Miss Alberghetti has an engaging voice; Jerry Orbach is a deft puppetmaster; as Marco and his gal, James Mitchell and Kaye Ballard have amusing scenes, particularly one where she is locked in a box through which he plunges swords. But the evening's peak comes with a whirling and jubilant "Grand Impérial Cirque de Paris" dance number, paced by the memorable little man of La Plume de Ma Tante, Pierre Olaf. Fetchingly...
Islands of the Sea (Buena Vista), the most recent of Walt Disney's ain't-nature-grand operas, is a scrappy but fascinating "featurette" (28 minutes) that observes in full color the recondite fauna of several seldom-visited islands-the Galápagos, the Falklands and Guadalupe. Best shots: a hideous six-foot iguana leaps into the sea and instantly seems transmogrified into a silly wriggling pollywog in a milk bottle; an elephant seal, a 20-ft. blob of blubber, lies snoring into its floppy, built-in nosebag, looking from the neck up like none other than...
Groom, the Kerrs' most important asset after their talent. "Mrs. Kerr is a real gay gal," says Mabel?but not in the early hours of her day. Then, like the heroine of Mary, Mary, she doesn't grasp things: "I hear voices all right, but I can't pick out the verbs." After an urn or two of coffee, she begins to pick them out?on a typewriter in the third-floor master bedroom. She has given up using the celebrated Chevrolet as an office, "because I ran out of places to park. People would drive past and wave...