Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wrinkled shirtsleeves, and shoots his French cuffs. It is 6:30 p.m. Cameras zero in, and CBS's Walter Cronkite Jr. begins his half-hour evening report. Now, by his own definition, his role has changed. On the color TV tube he becomes part editor and part ham...
...Golden Lamb Inn, near Lebanon, Ohio. Old colonial inn with museum character. Serves Long Island duckling with wild rice, Chateaubriand, Virginia ham...
Died. Jan Kiepura, 62, Polish tenor, whose dashing good looks and liquid voice took him to all the leading European opera houses, then to Hollywood, the Met and finally Broadway musical comedy, where he won a devoted following in the 1940s (The Merry Widow) despite his unsliceable ham acting and his sliceable Polish accent (he kept his "woice" in shape, he said, with small "inwisible" filters in his nostrils to keep "dost" out of the "lonks"); of a heart attack...
...assimilation into the American community of new-generation intellectual Jews and makes from it a sad-funny tale. In a college campus presumably similar to Montana State College, where Fiedler used to teach English, he gathers a handful of Jewish faculty members who have become more American than ham on rye and throws the tragic mysteries of Yom Kippur at them. They don talliths (prayer shawls) over their tweeds and attend the services of Louis Himmelfarb, dying unassimilated of cancer in a Catholic hospital. The old Jew scandalizes their skeptical liberalism by insisting on removal to the bathroom...
...caustic second banana in sophisticated Hollywood comedies, Randall seems to be trying to corner the Sellers market by donning the masks of the ham-with-a-thousand-faces. Wearing a bald pate and false nose, he pops his eyes, shrugs, affects a stiff little walk and a careful continental accent that slips unexpectedly into stage British-but the mannerisms never add up to the man Poirot. Anita Ekberg as a bosomy psychopath and Robert Morley as a bungling secret service man offer no noticeable help as they spout reams of witless dialogue set to tuba music. By the time...