Word: lola
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Blackshirts. Via the Nazi SS, he becomes, by double desertion, a journeyman executioner for Russia's secret police. Yet he is not a devoted Bolshevik, simply a self-dramatizing wreck of a man without faith, family or country. His only love on earth is a prostitute called Lola (also a secret agent on the side). His condition is well understood by an ex-Catholic Pole, a sadist beast named Kowalski, who taunts Brennan with the knowledge that in following a dream of heaven on earth, he has lost honor on earth and all hope of heaven. A true nihilist...
...Fair Lady workshop singers (some have joined from other musical casts) have had no operatic training, but some hope for careers in opera. The Musetta in last week's Bohème rehearsal, Lola Fisher, was Julie Andrews' able understudy as Eliza Doolittle, and Mimi was Evelyn Aring, who sings on the Firestone Hour...
Helped Out. As "a 100% Eisenhower man," Del Sesto this year jumped back into the political wars to block Dennis Roberts' fourth-term ambitions. Young Republicans organized an effective doorbell campaign. Disgruntled state employees flocked to ex-Employee Del Sesto's support. Attractive Lola Del Sesto and their three sons gave him an emotional appeal that Bachelor Denny Roberts did not have. Most important of all, much of the Italian-American vote shook off Democratic habit to boost a man with a name like Del Sesto...
...head, staccato voice spitting old Winchellisms ("The land you love, the love you land"), clowned edgily around a stage clogged with celebrities (Sammy Davis Jr., Joe DiMaggio, Martha Raye, Dorothy Kilgallen) who did nothing much but stand around being celebrities. But the singers worked to good effect: Lola Fisher, understudy for Julie (My Fair Lady) Andrews, singing I Could Have Danced All Night as if she could have; Perry Como's cool, limp delivery of new lyrics to Debussy's Claire de Lune...
...wasted no time stockading huts or seeding patches. First he had made himself a wife out of old canvas and straw, fully intending (he assured Captain Overton) "to go straight with her." Alas, "just for a bit of variety," Bunt had then made himself a girl friend named Lola, who had long hair of combed ship's rope. When quarreling broke out between the two women, said Sergeant Bunt, he took Lola's side, killed off his wife and buried her (he showed Overton the grave, with flowers...