Word: manne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While the Fugs have unquestionably extended the trend to extremes, not everyone has gone to pot. Kicks, a song written by the husband-and-wife team of Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, warns so effectively about the evils of drugs that the composers were given an award by Synanon, the self-help group for narcotics addicts...
...Spillane. Hammett, who died in 1961, created the tough-guy private eye, who has since taken up permanent residence in the ghetto world of detective fiction, but none of Hammett's many imitators ranks lower than Mickey Spillane. Anyone who bothers to measure Spillane's latest Tiger Mann mystery against this posthumous collection of Hammett's Continental Op stories, first published in the '20s in Black Mask magazine, will instantly...
Brain Trust. Lots of temperament. The orchestra is a cooperative: the musicians set their own salaries (based, among other things, on the number of family dependents rather than talent), own a $500,000 guesthouse for visiting artists as well as half-interest in the $2,800,000 Mann Auditorium in Tel Aviv, their permanent home. This, and the freedom from the discipline of a permanent conductor, has nurtured a strong streak of independence. "If the orchestra has any shortcomings," explains Mehta, "it is in its tendency toward musical anarchy. At rehearsals you suddenly find yourself in the middle...
...that Shrew is a walloping good story that audiences can eat up, the Elizabethan language of the script notwithstanding, and he predicts that the film "will go over well with a Walt Disney audience." In fact, he says, "we intend to make Shakespeare as successful a screenwriter as Abby Mann...
...impressed by Michel Piccoli, whose portrait of the unhappy clerk is a small masterpiece. Perspiring as freely as he fantasizes, nervously smoothing his sparse, slicked-down hair, and curling his lips into a tobacco-stained smile, Piccoli is simultaneously poignant, and repulsive. Charles Denner, Jean-Louis Trintignant, and Claude Mann never fail to be compelling as a cynically belligerent smark aleck, Miss Signoret's languidly egotistical lover, and a charming but distant policeman, respectively...