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...Newest Sound Around (Jeanne Lee and Ran Blake; RCA Victor). And the strangest. Songstress Lee has a foggy, seductive voice that occasionally strikes interesting effects from such laments as Laura and Lover Man. But for the most part, her pace is too languid. Pianist Blake, on the other hand, is a real find-wry, big-toned, and unfailingly inventive...
...that they have more to gain than to lose by their loose association with the U.S. It is estimated that there are fewer than 400 nationalist agitators among the island's 2,350,000 population. Some have gone over to Fidel Castro's Cuba; Campos' wife Laura, and one of his aides, Juan Juarbe, serve as members of Castro's delegation to the U.N., where they picture Puerto Rico as "the slave state of the Americas." The rest sit around dreaming up ways to make a noise far out of proportion to their numbers...
...class apartment in a Mid western city, Amanda Wingfield ("an exact portrait of my mother," says Williams) tries to cope with a peevish present by chattering of a fancied past. The son Tom (Williams) suffocates in a shoe factory and goes to movies to daydream of escape. The daughter Laura (Williams' sister Rose) has a mind and a personality as fragile as the little glass animals that deck her room. But the mother dragoons Tom into bringing home a marriageable "gentleman caller" for Laura. When the caller turns out to be engaged, and unintentionally breaks the pet unicorn...
...Stella Stevens); but in the reprise he straightens out and flies right. The script is an anthology of unintentional hilarities. "Just where do I stand," the heroine hollers angrily when the hero advises her to give up sex, "without my body!" The jazz, composed for the occasion by David (Laura) Raksin, is cool and epicene. Actress Stevens is blonde. Singer Darin does not sing; and besides, he looks like a rubber teddy bear...
...LAURA STEVENS...