Word: lyrical
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...Templar (the one who saves Olga from Harvard), the Cloisters statue of the Madonna and an ex-captain of the S.S. Europa. In America, Tightpants marries Olga, who hails from Wilkes-Barre and is a living replica of the Madonna. She is also musically inclined and bats out a lyric entitled Bungalow on Broadway, which is all set to be the hit of a new Ziegfeld show. But Ziegfeld dies, Bungalow is shelved, and Olga develops cancer. While her life is ebbing, Tightpants has to keep his upper lip stiff and accompany two comedians "in a battle with lemon meringue...
Poetry clearly needs the inspiration of youth. The best odes, by Dr. Lehman's reckoning, are written between 24 and 28, pastoral and narrative poems and elegies from 25 to 29, sonnets and lyric poems a year or two later. Notwithstanding Bernard Shaw, who started to write plays around 40, most dramatists do their best in their 30s: comedies from 32 to 36 (e.g., Shakespeare's As You Like It), tragedies from 34 to 38 (Hamlet and Racine's Iphigénie). Novelists are most likely to hit the jackpot between...
Married. Marguerite Piazza, 33, onetime Metropolitan Opera lyric soprano and TV songstress (Your Show of Shows) ; and William Condon, 45, Memphis snuff company executive, she for the third time, he for the second; in Jackson, Miss...
...inch number with an attached red sticker of warning: "The enclosed record is HORRIBLE." The label was an understatement. The tunes (Fish and There's a New Sound) offer some of the most nightmarish vocals of modern times to the accompaniment of an asthmatic calliope. Sample lyric...
...would be even better if Rodger's melody did not sound so like Irving Berlin's "Something to Dance About." The only song actually bad is "The Big Black Giant," which liens theatre audiences to a large beast. A heavy, cumbersome tune coupled with a dubious simile in the lyric, it is the only dull spot in the entire performance...