Word: jo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blow the money on the train ride into Boston, because Sugar, even though it's been designed and packaged by a roster of Broadway heavies, is about as weak as this present transition. All involved--Peter Stone on book, Jule Styne on Music. Bob Merrill on lyrics, sets by Jo Mielziner, direction and choreography by Gower Champion--appear to have approached the assignment with the kind of enthusiasm that should be reserved only for musicalizations of Night of the Living Dead. Lyrically, the libretto must have been written with a rhyming dictionary in one hand and a Funk and Wagnalls...
...lightly or easily altered. It is my general sense of human institutions that they are outcroppings of human nature, that human nature is slow to change, that in general when you destroy one set of institutions you get...something worse. That's a silly thing to say, I'm jo king of course...
Senator Javits, the first Senator to nominate a girl for the coveted job of Senate page, this week will announce that his principal appointment to Annapolis will be a woman. His nominee is Barbara Jo Brimmer, 17, of Staatsburg, N.Y., an A student and New York State Regents scholar who came by her interest in Annapolis naturally: her father is an Annapolis graduate and her mother was once a WAVE officer. Brimmer has been the subject of a lengthy debate between Javits and Secretary of the Navy John Chaffee. Argued Javits: "I seek only to have the academy conform...
...Jo Stafford had the biggest hit with "You Belong to Me," but Patsy Cline and Joni James were also correct answers. Billy Hill did the original "Glory of Love...
...actors, who were apparently given their heads, perform in an assortment of styles that range from self-parody to self-abuse. Jerry Orbach makes the most soporific leading man since Sonny Tufts, and the grandiose incompetence of Jo Van Fleet as the foul-mouthed Big Momma would be hard to equal. However, Robert De Niro, as a kleptomaniacal bicycle racer, and Leigh Taylor-Young as his perennially startled paramour, somehow manage to bring a small degree of charm and reality to the lamentable goings...