Word: joe
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Pennsylvania Democrat Joe Clark, a Rules member who has long advocated Senate reform, did not agree, and he even offered a package of amendments to stiffen the recommendation. Among other things. Clark wanted Senate wives to disclose their earnings. That proposal was defeated 62 to 25. The same fate befell an amendment offered by Delaware Republican John J. Williams, the man who kicked off the Baker investigation last October. Williams wanted Senators' income tax returns included in the disclosure plan. Aghast, his colleagues knocked that idea down...
...sister, Lee) at 78th, Steve and Jean Kennedy Smith at 76th. Some Republicans have a toehold farther down, where the Nixons, Nelson Rockefellers, and Nelson's ex-wife Mary live in the same building at 62nd Street, but the Massachusetts delegation comes back strong with Papa Joe and Rose at 24 Central Park South...
Sammy Davis is not yet effective as an actor. His obvious sincerity is an inadequate and rather embarrassing substitute for abiltiy. The quickly paced second act centers completely on Joe and allows Davis to sing nine numbers, each denoting a different stage in Joe's movement toward disaster. Happily, Davis is a great song stylist and impersonator. In each song he assumes a different pose. His delivery has a pulsating energy and clarity of effect. He yearns wistfully in a large, throaty voice for girls "with skin as white as cream." Or, as in 'Colorful," he stands smirking with...
Many of the other performers, particularly Paula Wayne, who plays Joe's white girlfriend and his manager's mistress, give life to roles the book only sketches out. The sparse sets are brilliantly backed by a series of realistic and impressionistic photographs of New York projected on screens. Tony Walton's designs do much of the work of director Peter Coe. These afford continuous movement from scene to scene and establish changes of emotional coloring within scenes and songs by their own changes in perspective and color...
Golden Boy gets close to its main character only in song. The original play's conflict has been exchanged for a drive forward, a hurling action toward the inevitable end, accented by the show's slick surface and fast movement. We feel the measure of Joe Wellington as different pressures reveal themselves at different points of his career, but we do not come in close contact with the source of these pressures in the man himself. Golden Boy has many moments that are tangentially exciting. As of now, its inventiveness has not become true creation...