Word: good
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George VI was feeling better, too. This week he and Queen Elizabeth planned to go down to their place at Sandringham, hoping that the country air would be good for his ailing...
...many months, President Juan Domingo Perón had had trouble with his teeth. His dentist, Dr. Carlos Elbio de Oliva Paz, had not been much help. Oliva Paz and Perón had been good friends. Perhaps that was why Perón overlooked the fact that his dentist's claim to have studied in the U.S. was not a matter of record, and that the police had once arrested him for practicing without a license...
...such good news, Perón grinned from ear to ear. Dr. Tylman immediately suspected the translation, saw to it that Perón got the correct version...
What really makes a topnotch musical of Kiss Me, Kate is Cole Porter's score. If no one of its tunes equals Begin the Beguine or Get a Kick Out of You, all 17 of them have their good points, and together form a sort of triumphal procession. They range from the slow torching of So in Love Am I to the fast jive of Too Darn Hot, from the musical brio of We Open in Venice to the verbal lift of Always True to You (In My Fashion). And again & again melody and mockery go hand in hand...
...Porter's next smash was coming; Kiss Me, Kate marks an interval of five years and two flops since his last hit show (Mexican Hayride). In the barren interval he also had to endure a film biography, Night and Day, of which he said: "It ought to be good because none of it is true...