Word: hotly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...young married adult," explains one radio executive, "the so-called middle-of-the-road music is no longer Tony Bennett but Elvis Presley, no longer the Andrews Sisters but the Supremes." Even some of the new U.S. rock records are sounding like instant oldies, notably the Monkees' latest hot seller, Valleri...
...eventually became interested in the wider instrumental palette and richer sonorities of pop arranging. Established though he was in the profession, he remained a blank to the public, since French disk jockeys rarely credit orchestra leaders by name. But that was before Love Is Blue became red hot. Now color him gold...
Unexpected verged on inexplicable as hot teams suddenly turned frigid, or sure losers suddenly won. How to explain, for example, the Canadiens' 21 games with only one loss-followed by three losses and a tie? Who could have predicted that the Bruins would win six out of seven with All-Star Defenseman Bobby Orr sidelined? And how about the Rangers, those longtime patsies? Last week they had a Stanley Cup play-off berth all sewed up, and were within striking distance of winning the N.H.L. championship-for the first time in 26 years...
...which Richard Wright was well qualified. He spent his first 19 years learning his place in Mississippi and Tennessee. For a boy with brains, talent and a white-hot ambition to be a writer, the inevitable conflicts were excruciating. Miss Webb, who was one of Wright's close white friends, gets most of them down, but she can scarcely improve on Wright's own well-known Black Boy (1945), a relentless autobiographical rendering of poverty, starvation, humiliation and yearning...
SENELICK uses the conventional style but he restricts it to one group of characters, primarily the downtrodden landlords, Raevskaya (Marilyn Pitzele), her brother Gaev (Bro Uttal) and their adopted daughter Varya (Janet Leslie). The style becomes part of the dramatic action of the production. It is a hot house aristocratic style of life and acting; constantly undercut on one side by a rude bourgeois frankness (played with 20th century realism) and on the other by a broad comedy, which is often the symbol and mockery of unclutered peasant bumpkinry...