Word: nell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Freshman standouts Cynthia Stanton and Courtney Stimpson hold down the number two and three spots, respectively. Player-manager Nell Foreman, a junior transfer from Smith, follows in the fourth position...
...Joshua of the cast, which consists of three women and two men, is Nell Carter. Her remarkable voice can be as powerful as a trumpet and as plaintive as a flute, and when she sings Mean To Me and It's a Sin To Tell a Lie, she is like a whole orchestra. Her fellow performers -Armelia McQueen, Ken Page, Andr...
There are at least two memorable performances in the film--but they come from characters on the periphery. One is Francis Faye's Madam Nell, the whorehouse madam. She delivers a series of deadpan wise-cracks with the dry timing of a George Burns, and this cool sexual sarcasm produces a clever variation on Mae West's old routines. But in the end the bit doesn't mesh with the plot; it is precisely because of her toughness that we fail to be touched her Madame Nell goes crazy after the authorities shut down the brothel. The house's black...
...three women and two men who deliver the numbers really deliver. Armelia McQueen is a husky-dusky sybil of song, Irene Cara wraps her voice in plaintive melancholy, and Nell Carter has a sensual verve that turns Cash for My Trash into a show-stopping aphrodisiac...
...longer a matter of picking up a cookbook and buying a set of copper pots. Present and would-be home chefs support hundreds of cooking schools in the U.S. They are mostly very good?notably James Beard's and Lydie Marshall's classes in Manhattan, or Mary Nell Reek's in Houston, or Rita Leinwand's in Los Angeles. A five-lesson program can cost as much as $350. Boston alone supports 29 cooking schools, teaching everything from dicing to making Dampfnudeln. Whether for culinary kudos or to master grande cuisine, Americans sometimes spend $3,060 (not counting jet fare...