Word: isn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years in the Kuomintang, pressed the claims of long and dutiful party service. What to do? Miss Liu proposed a deal: if popular Miss Li withdrew, veteran Miss Liu would serve only half her three-year term, resign in favor of Miss Li. "Never!" cried Miss Li. "This isn't democracy...
Look, Ma, I'm Dancin' (music & lyrics by Hugh Martin; book by Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee; produced by George Abbott) hit on a bright subject for a musical: ballet. There was plenty to spotlight, spoof, and splash with color. But Look, Ma isn't quite up to the job. It has its undeniable high points; but as a whole it doesn't come...
There is nothing wrong with this story that isn't wrong with a number of major novels-except the way a good deal of it is told, oversimplified and trimmed with parsley. Sabre's enemies and their motives are too wicked, fancy, and convenient to the plot design to remain quite believable. The obstructive wife and husband are more conveniently unlovable than an honest imitation of life would allow, and they are so tidily removed from the path of true love that the whole business seems as manipulated as a shell game. Because all the bad people...
...have been bitterly attacked by my friends on the left for veering sharply to the right," says Crowther. "Of course, I say it isn't true. My heart, like all the best of hearts, is slightly on the left...
Sindlinger's technique (what pollsters call "pretesting audience reaction") isn't new, but some of his refinements are. At his New Entertainment Workshop on a farm in Hopewell, N.J., a staff boils down the author's manuscript to a one-hour reading which is then recorded. The records are played in various cities and towns to hand-picked groups who first munch refreshments, and then all sit down together to hear the boiled-down book read, and record their impressions throughout (from "superior" to "bad") on an electronic gadget called Teldox. When it's all over...