Word: nice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...happen next, and apathetic to the whole thing next morning. Playwright Miller has carefully appraised his theme for what it is worth as theater. He has decided just how much humor may prove of use; has decided, less soundly, just how much romance; and has got his play a nice smooth production. He is more shrewd than gifted; and not the first playwright who, while dramatizing the cleavage between ethics and economics on the stage, has managed to combine them at the work table...
Despite its Irishness, Three Wishes is raspberry syrup without a drop of poteen. John Raitt sings handsomely, but Ralph Blane's tunes seldom seem hummablel without also seeming familiar. There are nice George Jenkins sets and Miles White costumes, and there is at least one thoroughly gay dance number. If wishes were horses, the show might go at a fast enough clip to be fun; as it is, it just ambles from one mild scene to another...
...only method of securing work is through good personal contacts in a specialized field, and even then the chances are slim. The student-sponsored work camps will give anyone a nice clean conscience and a wealth of ruddy friends, although their financial remunerations barely cover a short fling at the local bistro...
...tough cowboys, blustering, blood & thunder pictures which give every child from Maine to Louisiana the idea that it is right and honorable and pure heroism to shoot and kill in cold blood. At the tender age of four years, my daughter has a well-established idea that it is nice to shoot people...
...ranch-type Western Hills Hotel near Fort Worth, and next winter he will run the posh new Tamarisk Country Club at Palm Springs, Calif., where he is building a home overlooking the third tee. Other golfers find themselves dreaming of the day Hogan will find a nice green pasture for himself. It seems to be their only hope of getting a real shot at one of the pig tournaments. Like a mulligan stew, Ben Hogan just seems to get better & better the longer he simmers...