Word: mushing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Luck of Ginger Coffey. Irish he is, and a grand figure of a man indeed. Six feet in his socks and no mush around the middle, mind, for all he's rising 40. The eyes are wild and blue, the face is wide and Irish. The hair is the color of a slightly soiled orangutan, and over the large smile arches an orange mustache such as a man might hang his hat on. The hat, set over at a country angle, is Tyrolean and supports a bright little brush that stands eternally erect. The jacket is tweed and reeks...
...still use dog sleds frequently in terrain too rough for tractors or motor toboggans. New Zealand dog handlers have not only evolved a special breed of husky to withstand the world's crudest climate, but have even developed a new "language" that the dogs understand better than the "Mush!" used by old Yukon hands: to start the team, the handler cries "Wheet...
Willson has borrowed the book for his musical from a whimsical little cream puff of a 1947 movie called Miracle on 34th Street. Stuck with an inebriated Santa, Macy's unwittingly hires the real Kris Kringle to handle the reins as Donder, Blitzen, et al., mush through the big Thanksgiving Day parade. Kris (Laurence Naismith) stays on for the holiday rush and he is a loving wonder at dandling the kids on his knee. There are minor complications, of course, like St. Nick's spending a day or two in the mental ward at Bellevue until his credentials...
...Birdie. This adolescent operetta loses a lot in translation from stage to screen. Ann-Margret, as the girl from Sweet Apple, Ohio, who gets involved with a mush-mouthed rock-'n'-roller named Conrad Birdie, can't fool anybody into believing that she is 16 years old. But then she doesn't really...
...Birdie. This adolescent operetta loses a lot in translation from stage to screen. Ann-Margret, as the girl from Sweet Apple, Ohio, who gets involved with mush-mouthed rock-'n'-roller named Conrad Birdie, can't fool anybody into believing that she is 16 years old. But then she doesn't really...