Word: likeness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rose") in which she expresses her domestic hopes for her ne'er-do-well would-be beau Sid. The songs are pure artlessness carried to the level of high musical-comedy art. The melodic lines are as sweet as an innocent kiss and the lyrics ("Both Sid and me/ Like Company/ So if You're free/ We're home...") are as plain as the heroine and, for that reason, just as affecting. I only hope that Miss Simon drops a few stagey mannerisms (particularly a tendency to shoot her eyes what looks like two inches out of their sockets) that...
...annoyance value compared to the performance of Michael Murphy's pit band. The musicians are seldom together, often out of tune, and usually spiritless. Conductor Murphy has little sense of tempo, and Philip Lang's nicely-orchestrated overture takes on a dirgelike quality that tends to make overture-lovers like myself cringe. (Note to Mr. Birnbaum: these people in the band are your enemies! Take a whip to them soon...
...brings them off with spirit. Whether he is laughing it up with the boys or merely stating his carnets unfulfilled intention to his ever-patient Lilly, Noonoo always remains pitifully earnest and credible. Burlesque in this role would be a tragedy, and Noonoo happily avoids the temptation to ham like the plague...
MacBean had not played quarterback in a "T" formation since his high school days, but the change was a welcome relief to him. "I was disappointed that we didn't pass more before. I like playing the "T" much more. The change is not so much what I do physically as what I do mentally. Now I am much more involved in the game," he said...
Lewis, called on four goal-tending charges, controlled the opening tip, but his team couldn't control the game. The varsity had leads of four to six points throughout the first half, until a hot shooting streak by Bozek-like his scoring streak that won the game-gave the varsity a seven-point lead at half-time...