Word: leprechauns
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...between two oversimplified sets of values. The conflict involves Newsman Tyrone Power, who must choose between Good (writing as he pleases for "nickels and dimes" and marrying lovely Anne Baxter) and Evil (selling out to New York Publishing Tycoon Lee J. Cobb and his predatory daughter, Jayne Meadows). Any leprechaun knows the difference between good & evil, but it takes some time for a stuffy hero to figure...
...compared with what it will be, but it is a modern miracle. The process of sending electronic pictures through the air and reassembling them in the living room is one of the great achievements of modern science. It all began in 1873 with a sharp-eared Irishman and a leprechaun sunbeam...
...Chamberlain was no appeaser in those days; besides, there are few on Andros, even today, who have actually seen a chickcharney (first cousin to a leprechaun). Some time ago a native awoke in a thicket at sunrise, after a rum-soaked night, and saw them by the thousands at their morning ritual-carrying snakes to hundreds of tiny cauldrons on the beach, anointing their supple bodies with snake oil, dressing themselves each with an almond leaf in front and an almond leaf behind, and swinging off through the trees like tiny Tarzans to hunt game with bows & arrows...
...formula plot is certainly not one of these faults; what goes on in Finian's Rainbow almost defies synopsis. A satirical and social-minded fantasy, Finian tells of an Irishman (Albert Sharpe) who borrows a pot of gold from a leprechaun, brings it to the U.S., and buries it somewhere in the southern state of "Missitucky." The gold's magic powers turn bellowing Senator Billboard Rawkins first into a black man and then into a kindly one; take the kinks out of the romance between the Irishman's daughter (Ella Logan) and her Missitucky beau. And, bereft...
...show did. The brightest of the ditties, When the Idle Poor Become the Idle Rich, fills out a hilarious dream fashion-show in which the sharecroppers doll up in fantastic mailorder finery. Actor Sharpe, specially imported from Eire, makes a lively Finian, and David Wayne an immensely engaging leprechaun. Finian's Rainbow is not lacking in good things. What it really needed was an implacable blue pencil...