Word: mellower
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mellow and good-humored and not entirely serious about itself, Kid Blue shows it is still possible to bring a newer, fresher, more contemporary tone to the western while still honoring what is best and strongest in the traditional form...
...mellow and moist-eyed, Frank Sinatra had finally made it. The Kennedys may have snubbed him because of his underworld connections. Richard Nixon may have regretted his lack of gallantry with Columnist Maxine Cheshire. But now all was forgiven. There Frank was in the White House, singing ten of his old favorites for visiting Italian Premier Giulio Andreotti. The President himself led the standing ovation after Ol' Man River and called his visiting star "the Washington Monument of entertainment." Afterward, Sinatra went back to his newly rented Washington town house and gave a party for a few friends, including...
...would have thought that no one would ask me to rewrite the characters of a play that is 37 years old." She paused before adding the obvious: "I, of course, have no intention of doing it." Once as famous for her sharp tongue as for her beauty, she is mellower now (she celebrated her 70th birthday this month), but not so mellow as to rewrite her best-known play. When The Women is revived on Broadway this week, after two weeks of tryouts, the changes will be in the cast: a blonde seductress will replace Lainie Kazan, the temperamental brunette...
...singing, too, reflected both sides. He did some of his new, mellow songs like Mother Earth. His best (our prejudice, perhaps) was "Who Do You Love," done as gutturally as ever, with side-kick Trevor Veitch on the electric guitar...
...Harper and his sax. Odetta moaning about how it's gonna feel "when your biscuit roll is gone." Mandrill's man in the big straw hat talking about 'Oooh shake some boo-die. Get it on. Right on." Pucho and the Latin Soul Brothers making the transition from a mellow "summertime and the livin' is easy" to some Latin and the livin...