Word: merriment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...merriment of a wedding banquet, I propose we sing, "Make Your Bed For Two," last year's hit song. Everybody shudders. No, not that, my young friends whisper, we'll all end up in jail. Don't you know it was written by Theodorakis? It's strictly forbidden. Later on, after we leave the banquet, the same friends roll up the car windows and softly sing the song. Warmed up, they continue with "The Rebel," the centuries-old anthem of the Cretan revolutions against the Turks. That is also forbidden, because of its suggestive language: "When will the stars break...
Bonnie and Clyde. Bang bang! go the guns, and the bank guard falls dead, his face oozing ketchup from every pore. Twang twang! goes the banjo, and Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker ride off in a stolen flivver for further merriment, murder and mayhem...
...court room, was Coleman's nephew, Robert Coleman Black, one of his defense attorneys. A defense witness was a first cousin. Mrs. Kelley Coleman, the court clerk, was a cousin by marriage. The defendant's own name even appeared on the list of potential jurors, causing quiet merriment when it was read aloud in court...
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF. Zero Mostel, a virtuoso of the mind's merriment and the heart's grief, dominates this wistfully nostalgic musical about a small Jewish community in the Russia...
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF strays a world away from Broadway to capture the happiness and the hurt, the folkish airs and graces of a small Jewish community in a Russian town in 1905. Zero Mostel, an intuitive and masterly recorder of the mind's merriment and the soul's grief, gives this musical an unfaltering heartbeat. A male wedding dance with empty wine bottles perched in men's hats is a tingling high spot...