Word: naturedness
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Based on an actual incident in California where a motorcycle club nearly wrecked a small city, the plot warms up with good-natured pranks, shifts to drunken brawls, and then speeds to an open clash between the irate residents and the invading cyclists.
One of the disappointments of the year was John Hersey's The Marmot Drive, the story of a Connecticut woodchuck hunt, full of murky meanings and pseudo-archaic Yankee lingo. One of the real surprises of the year was the belated bow in fiction of aged (81) Philosopher Bertrand...
What raises Kismot above the standard of an old Maria Montez movie are the engaging performances of a cast which refuses to take any of the show's claptrap seriously. Well-rehearsed after a WEst Coast run of two months, the company gambols through Kismot with good-natured case. Even...
Now the release of a film version points up more that ever the obtuseness of this view. Still gaudy, still gustily good-natured and bordering on indelicacy, Kiss Me, Kate follows closely the Century Theatre version, and it is about as entertaining as a musical can be.
What raises Kismet above the standard of an old Maria Montez movie are the engaging performances of a cast which refuses to take any of the show's claptrap seriously. Well-rehearsed after a West Coast run of two months, the company gambols through Kismet with good-natured case. Even...