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Porgy's strengths are obvious. The creation of one of America's most brilliant native musical talents, the opera boasts a number of songs that have become standards: Summertime; I Got Plenty o' Nuttin '; Bess, You Is My Woman Now; It Ain 't Necessarily So. More subtle, but no less impressive, are the choruses, which give voice to the residents of Catfish Row: their lamentation in Gone, Gone, Gone, their exuberance in Ain't Got No Shame, their terror in Oh, de Lawd Shake de Heavens. Proudly, Gershwin considered his work "the greatest music...
...thinks much at all, in the roar and glitter. On the street outside a crowd has gathered, attracted by the klieg lights swooping over Cambridge, and by Robert Blake, Man of the Year. Blake, who says he's "never won nuttin' like dis before", leans out the window and waves to his teenage fans. After a while he is pulled back inside, and the window shut. Those within have paid to laugh; serious adulation is out of place...
...Harvard films, there ain't much a nuttin...
...JOELLE NUTTIN...
...potbellied union leaders who could double as precinct bosses. Their rye-and-gravel voices and center-city accents prompted some newsmen following Humphrey to invent a mythical character named Augie. Introducing Humphrey to union crowds, California Labor Chieftain Joe Mazzola likes to tell his audiences: "This man speaks nuttin' but the trut'." He then sternly admonishes the workers: "Get off your butts...