Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Says he: "Most people are doing children's shows until something better comes along. I never had a desire to do programs for adults. Children are a very warm audience." Keeshan (formerly Clarabelle the Clown on Howdy Doody) uses the Walter Cronkite approach, addressing the camera directly. His Miltown mood indicates that if the sky were falling, it would be about as important as a broken crayon. The gentleness tends to reassure parents, but children are more often caught up in the lively puppet sequences by Cosmo Alegretti. "We program the gentle side of life," claims Keeshan, an approach that...
...misreading of public sentiment," warn the authors, "to say that America is in a mood of programmatic retrenchment." There is widespread support for such Federal programs as educational aid and Medicare, job training and social security. There is much liberal action behind all the conservative rhetoric. In short; "there is no inevitable emerging Republican majority...
...think those people with the show were sincere, incredibly naive, not unlike myself, but nonetheless, sincere. Of course they had no trouble interpreting the mood of the crowd, and were extremely surprised. They couldn't believe it. I couldn't believe they did not have the same audience reaction everywhere they went, but apparently on college campuses in the Midwest and in non-skiing regions they were enthusiastically received (even after the show...
...from the orchestra floats a vaguely medieval sound: thick, sonorous and brassy. The dancers parade in solemn sequence across the softly lit stage, looking rather like harlequins in leotards. When they reach the footlights, the mood is suddenly jolted by a more familiar noise: the harsh twang of amplified guitars and the racketing thump of a rock beat. What follows this seemingly incongruous prelude is a swirling, eye-and ear-catching panoply of ballet maneuvers, from chastely classic lifts to Broadway shuffles, set to an eclectic score (by Alan Raph and Lee Holdridge) that blends the modish and the modal...
...express a general distaste for life. There was a time when pedants were convinced that Shakespeare had suffered a nervous breakdown. Romanticists are sure that the Dark Lady of the Sonners had betrayed him more wantonly than usual, and that, like Jimmy Durante, he was in a mowing mood...