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At any rate, Kenya seemed well on the way to solving its unemployment problem. To qualify for veterans' benefits, Nairobi's neediest only have to trot out of town, drape themselves in a monkey skin and return chanting a Mau Mau jingle. It was all a little embarrassing...
His play shows how prejudice, blind stupidity, and love of convention combine to kill an innocent young man, but it never lets the audience stop laughing. Even when the dead man rises, still wrapped in his shroud, to tell the audience it is going to hell, the viewers laugh and...
If the main plot is arch, the subplot is fallen-arch. A coolheaded, busy, busy, busy Macy executive (Janis Paige) has been burned on the matrimonial altar and has sworn off men. Her next-door neighbor is an ex-marine (Craig Stevens) who has sworn off women in favor of...
The format of Freberg's spiritual ads is "a disarming natural conversational approach leading into a song that's like a pop tune. It's what I call the 'espionage approach.' " In one commercial, a secular type says he can't make it to...
Jingle Bells also wanders through a number of modulations and parodies, finishing up as The Great Pretender revisited. The subject of girls and what to do with them is also revisited, and the Dunces version of this quaint old children's song would disturb most carolers.