Word: jollyness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The sound of two hands clapping will cease immediately thereafter. The Wild Party never develops the fine frenzy it needs. The questionable poem was written more than 40 years ago by Joseph Moncure March, another of whose works was the basis for Robert Wise's excellent film about small...
At the party, Queenie, Jolly's much-abused girl friend, is pursued and eventually seduced by a brilliantined matinee idol named Dale Sword (Perry King). From jealousy and an encroaching sense of failure, Jolly goes to pieces, and the party follows right along. There is all manner of period...
Coco makes a good Jolly, full of poor, crazy hopes, and Raquel Welch appears as Queenie. Welch's presence is usually the occasion for unchivalrous wisecracks of one sort or another, but she is genuinely touching in The Wild Party. Her Queenie is a really sensual woman, not a...
After the last jump had been cleared and Sunday's addition to the 35,000 people turnout began filtering out of the polo grounds, I noticed the previously repugnant odor was not nearly as noticeable. Nor did I look with disdain at the gentleman, who with a most affected-sounding...
As a devotee of P.G. Wodehouse, may I say that of all the many failures to achieve a pastiche of the style of the Master, this effort of Mr. Kanfer's must take the jolly old biscuit. The idea of Jeeves as a club waiter serving "gin stengahs" (whatever...