Word: lurks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Plop No. 2 brings on a parcel of kitchy-kitchy-koo girls for Broadway's standard Babylonian revels. Captain Sanjar, who has dallied with the Princess Barbára, is ordered to trial by her father, the King. He must open one of two doors behind which lurk, respectively, a hungry tiger and a nubile damsel. The skit preserves the tricky non-ending from Frank Stockton's The Lady or the Tiger?, but it scarcely matters. To fill in the non-beginning and the non-middle, the dancing girls thrash around like palm trees in a tropical hurricane...
Flies to Flies. The plot evolves, or rather meanders, in a kind of metaphysical Disneyland setting thick with mountainous stalactites and stalagmites, behind, over and under which lurk new magical wonders to behold. Fog billows, backdrops quaver with psychedelic patterns, a sword springs from nowhere, an orange fountain gushes from center stage, a tenor flies into the flies. The singing, which requires a display of vocal acrobatics that few performers can successfully negotiate, was excellent. Loudest bravas went to Christa Ludwig, whose lusty soprano and hip-swinging histrionics had bite and conviction...
...DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ENTIRE WORLD AS SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF COLE PORTER REVISITED. The fun and games that lurk beneath even the bleak surface of Depression and War are replayed in a revue of the lesser-known tunes in the Porter portfolio...
...DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ENTIRE WORLD AS SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF COLE PORTER REVISITED. The fun and games that lurk beneath even the bleak surface of Depression and War are replayed in a revue of the lesser-known tunes in the Porter portfolio...
Raging Pestilences. Life is likely to exist on Mars, says the panel, which was brought together by the National Academy of Sciences. And no one can be sure that life does not lurk below the surface of the moon. If its chemistry is similar to life on earth, given any opportunity it might attack earthly plants and animals. The panel recalls many instances when earthly microorganisms swept through populations that had no natural resistance. Many New World peoples were reduced to remnants by plagues of measles and smallpox brought by explorers from Europe...