Word: listening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shock to read that four million people in our supposedly enlightened society listen to the drivel produced by soap opera [TIME, May 19 ] The characters, the conversation, the overall idiocy of these shows appall me! Are we a nation of dimwits...
Lovely to Look At (M-G-M), a remake of the old Broadway musical Roberta (filmed in 1935 with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers) is delightful to listen to because of such Jerome Kern songs as Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, I Won't Dance and the title tune. The picture is also pleasant to look at with a 15-minute fashion finale featuring startling Adrian creations in Technicolor...
...over their bows whistle shots from an approaching Allied ship. "Listen, Rita," says quick-witted Bob, "what color petticoat are you wearing...
Lehrer and his cast poked fun at everything from the GSAS to the football team. The audience stopped laughing only long enough to listen to the next...
...that the very important person sits, and the charming intellectual lady on his left. After dinner there's some leg stretching. The ladies flow into the drawing room, the men find themselves in a small parlor with brandy in glass balloons in their hands. The less important guests listen with discreet appreciation. The columnist gravely nods, occasionally emits in a word or two the voice of reason...