Word: mum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Animals," in that the earth mother theme is played up: she wears long dresses, her full voice moans for sheer bulk--the images are supposed to be security, ripeness. Nothing whines and the come-on is not overly sexual; on certain numbers, particularly when her still-mediocre band keeps mum and lets the piano alone back her up, the sound is enveloping and strong. It's refreshing to have a female vocalist who isn't easily thrust into categories, especially weak and wispy ones. But Nelson is limited potential at best even so, and if a performance last spring...
...Shearer of Parade magazine learned from a crewman on the Glomar Explorer, the Howard Hughes ship, about the quest and tried to confirm it through Hughes' Summa Corp., without success. Alerted by Summa, Colby some months later reached Shearer, confirmed the basic facts and persuaded him to keep mum, arguing that recovery of the sub might yield some "ultrasecret" Soviet coding equipment...
...magazine's biggest coup was landing Liddy's 5,500-word article, written in a Washington jail cell last July. Liddy has been the mum man of Watergate, responding only with silence to prosecutors, judges and journalists alike for over two years. He was so determined to remain mute that when he attended a writing course in prison, he insisted that his work not be published...
...Harvard President Derek C. Bok, who instituted the 2.5-to-1 male-female ratio here and reportedly favors what administrators like to call "equal access" admissions, keeping mum on merger...
That much of it amounts to one joke-and not an especially good one. The real star of the show-in fact, its only excuse- is George Rose, who plays Lynn's magnificently swishy lodger Henry, a middle-aged queen mum supervising her diet and her life. The play is full of Henry's preening, his outrageous, satiric gaiety, which has something quite likable about it. Rose, who looks here like a limp Morey Amsterdam, brings the fat farm drama alive...