Word: meaningful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SUMMER FUN (ABC, 8-8:30 p.m.). Bert Lahr plays a well-meaning but blundering spirit who tries to help a family with its daily problems in "Thompson's Ghost."
At this moment, Betty Bacall is delighted with her life. "I've waited for this for 40,000 years," she says, meaning Broadway stardom. "It was my teen-age dream." Actually, it is her third career. Born in New York of a Russian-Polish medical-supplies salesman and his...
"If two people love each other," Hemingway once wrote, "there can be no happy end to it," meaning one must die before the other. "Being a widow is no picnic," says Betty Bacall, "you lose your place," a shattering experience that has befallen 1,900,000 women in the 40...
Before 40, one adds and feeds to gorge the ego; after 40, one subtracts and simplifies to slim the soul. With the final image of one's existence even faintly in view, the self seems pettier and the words "service," "love of others," "compassion" not only creep into the...
"Absolutely Sweet Marie" abounds with line-filler dilutions of meaning, like "well," "you see," "aw, now," and repetitions of line-fragments. It sounds improvised. It is also a coyer baring of private symbols than we've had to take in some time: here (and in "Memphis Blues Again") we get...