Word: gee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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However, the real test that will determine whether this revival to make it is director Field's choreography. A good deal of Bernstein's score is given over to programmatic dance sequences which Field (apparently in fear of comparisons with Jerome Robbins' original stagings) never fully utilizes. But, gee, Mr. Field, there are those of us who weren't even around to see the original so you do have give us something better than the listless mime that comprises the "Miss Turnstyle Ballet" and the tentative exercises that accompany "Lonely Town." As it now stands, On the Town needs...
...past century alone, some 60,000 books have sought to explain Christ. In one of the latest, Journalist William Emerson Jr. complains that in different centuries and cultures people have always concocted "the sort of Jesus they could live with." He then goes on to create a gee-whizzy, headline-seeking Christ who traveled the revival circuit...
...once spoke to Charles Laughton and still remembers that the actor remarked upon his low voice. When Bob Hope played Lincoln, Dick trapped the comedian backstage and said, "Fine show, Bob." Hope replied, "Thanks, son." Hardly a droll exchange, but enough to thrill Cavett. He recalls: "I thought, gee, if I were famous I wouldn't have to worry about being smooth like some of the jocks in my class, or about sweating when I danced with girls. If I were in the movies, they'd all be coming to me and I'd ride in limousines...
...from the Harvard Archives walked in last month to scoop up souvenirs and knickknacks-wall maps, posters, trophies and records-for an exhibit sometime in the distant future when "someone may come in and think, gee, Harvard once had a ROTC unit here...
...talent is at the wheel. Sometimes Rosen gets himself entangled in this web of his own creation ("When a pimple appeared on my forehead, I was immediately faced with a moral decision. Should I treat it with a special cream or encourage it to reach a natural death."), but, gee, when you're only 22, there's still world enough and time to turn to weightier subjects...