Word: garlanding
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...worried that cases already decided would now be reopened -even though the court had yet to rule on whether its guidelines will apply retroactively. New York's Police Commissioner Howard J. Leary argued that "there is being developed sophisticated law for an immature society"; a police chief in Garland, Texas, complained: "It's the damnedest thing I ever heard-we may as well close up shop." Local newspaper cartoonists, too, had a field day, most of them siding melodramatically with what they assumed would be handcuffed police (see cuts...
...Arthur Garland '36, president of Action for Boston Community Development. Boston's poverty agency, last night proposed George Bennett '38 to all the vacant post of executive director for the agency, but there were signs that representatives of the poor might oppose his appointment...
...year-old Daisy he has plucked from a honky-tonk beach town, and tells her: "I'm going to make something out of you-money." He soon transforms Daisy (Natalie Wood) into America's Little Valentine, a musical-comedy wonderkin to someone like the young Judy Garland...
Carol Channing once jokingly called her "the world's greatest stage stepmother," and the lady herself, Denise Minnelli, would be the last to deny it. So when Liza Minnelli, 19, her husband Vincente's daughter by his marriage to Judy Garland, opened at the Persian Room of Manhattan's Plaza Hotel there was Denise with a lustily applauding troop of 85 show-biz and cafesociety friends. Not that the gal who knocked them dead in Flora the Red Menace needed a private cheering section. After a dozen or so songs, that old belter Ethel Merman rushed over...
...this remake, MGM cooks the goose that laid the golden egg. Rarely have so many charmless performers been assembled. Zing, freshness, warmth, humor and yay-team vitality have been banished-presumably to please a new generation that will never know what it missed. The Garland-Rooney roles are taken over by Singers Connie Francis and Harve Presnell, who mope through the vintage show tunes as though they have memorized the words and music while disowning the message. Instead of getting-the-gang-together-to-put-on-a-dandy-show, they are paying off a gambling debt for Connie...