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...Audience in the past has been its poetry, and this edition features a few professionals, among others William Carlos Williams, Robert Lowell, and Arthur Rimbaud. (Rimbaud's Rages de Cesars is published in apposition to Lowell's "Napoleon III, a translation and colloquialization of the former.) Williams offers a limp and muted tribute to Sibelius...
...drinking and dancing). He studied for a while at North Texas State College, signed on at Columbia in 1956 as a speech major, English minor. Among his senior year courses: chamber music, third year Greek, history and theory of music, movie production. Extracurricular activities: recording sessions, rehearsals for his limp but likable TV show, ukulele concerts for his wife-who is his own age-and four daughters. He averaged six hours of sleep a night while working at Columbia, studied Ibsen on transcontinental flights, still managed to look buttercup-fresh in two movies made last year (he was Hollywood...
This is where the tax collector comes in. Cedric is a toothbrush-mustached city mouse with "office-pale hands," as limp as "tired celery." But in Ma and Pop's peasant-shrewd eyes, he is a potential husband, if only they can take his mind off his tax forms and put it on Mariette's still flawless figure. Ma starts fattening up Cedric with goodies from the "frige." Pop rechristens the tax man "Charlie," and plies him with a Rolls-Royce ("half vermouth, quarter whisky, quarter gin, dash of orange bitters") followed by a Chauffeur ("one-third vermouth...
...Stanley Holloway) who starred in it on Broadway, Lady captivated most of the city's captious critics (said the Times: "A musical comedy of the first water"), who often delight in panning U.S. productions. Afterward, temperamental, triumphant Actor Harrison, escorted by Cinemactress Wife Kay Kendall, gamely offered a limp hand to a wellwisher...
...color is smeared across the screen with a garbage glare, the dialogue is dubbed in from the original Italian, and the small-scale spectacle comes to a limp conclusion as Attila repents and rides back to the Danube with a white cross burning in the sky. But it is escape...