Word: lyrically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard graduate who scouts the society pages for the names of new brides and phones them from pay booths at 4 a.m., a seven-foot Santa Claus who tampers with little girls. Author Bourjaily (whose first novel, The End of My Life, was hailed by some critics for its "lyric emotion") evidently has some method behind all this distasteful madness: he tries to show that the times are out of joint. But by the time King Al No. - 1 is put behind bars, it is clear that the dirty tricks that life has played on him cannot compare...
...show's love songs, "As On Through the Seasons We Sail" seemed to separate itself from the other indistinguishable tunes; but "All of You" has the kind of suggestive rhymes which will more likely attract general notice. Ameche leers at that lyric in what I found the lowest point in a down-grade evening...
Thomas is considered one of the world's greatest lyric poets. He died in the fall...
...Anderson and Helen Traubel, Violinist Yehudi Menuhin). Early this year, he will repossess Takarazuka's Tokyo branch, which the occupation forces had turned into the famed Ernie Pyle movie theater. Last week the old showman ventured forth to take in a special show with a Christmas finale. Sample lyric...
Topping last week's bestseller list was Mr. Sandman (Cadence), featuring the piping voices of the Chordettes, beginning with chime effects ("bum, bum, bum, bum") and paced by the clip-clop sounds of Archie Bleyer slapping his knees. Sample Mr. Sandman lyric: "Give him a lonely heart like Pagliacci, and lots of wavy hair like Liberace." No. 4 bestseller: Teach Me Tonight (Abbott), with the DeCastro Sisters in a twangy, eagerly enunciated request for seduction. The melody is in the contralto, while the other girls warble country-alto above. No. 11 but climbing fast: The Naughty Lady of Shady...