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...right places. Now, at 5 ft. 6 in. and 119 Ibs., she is hitting with more oomph, punctuating each shot with an audible grunt that "means I'm putting everything into it." Her game as a rule is still anchored at the baseline. But now, capitalizing on her two-fisted backhand and a deadly drop shot, she is taking more chances. "Until this year," she says, "I've always waited and let the other person make mistakes. Now I'm trying for the good shot. I'm loosening up a little bit out there...
There was no "oomph" to Sha Na Na Friday night. And Sha Na Na without oomph is like a ducktail without grease. Maybe they were tired, or just bored with it all, or preoccupied with endorsing their paychecks. But whatever it was, Sha Na Na's concert wasn't anything to make you paste the ticket stubs in your scrapbook. It seemed like the group was just going through the motions, rather than giving a performance...
Died. Ann Sheridan, 51, Hollywood's "Oomph Girl" of the 1930s, '40s and early '50s, whose red-haired beauty and deep velvet voice perfectly suited the gun molls and dance-hall girls she played in scores of potboilers (Torrid Zone) and some critical successes (King's Row), then, as her looks and the movieland whirl (including marriages to Actors Edward Norris and George Brent) faded, went into semiretirement until last year, when she married Actor Scott McKay and made a comeback in CBS's comedy series, Pistols 'n' Petticoats; of cancer...
...what his lyrics lack in depth his melodies make up in lilting appeal. Phillips' wife Michelle, a willowy ex-model, is the spiraling soprano; Denny Doherty, 24, sings a secure tenor. Anchor girl is rotund (200 lbs.) Cass Elliot, 23, whose ringing contralto gives the quartet its oomph. Together they build a buoyant vocal blend that floats easily through intricate harmonic shifts, toying with rhythms that are as fresh and bracing as ocean breezes. The quartet is now on a highly successful college tour, stands to make $1,000,000 this year...
...like a beguiling woman," he says with gusto. "Each woman has her own attributes, and each man, thank God, can make a choice." Weaver raves about such cities as New York ("You can get the best cheap meal and the lousiest expensive meal in the country"), Chicago ("Such terrific oomph") and San Francisco ("I can walk with pleasure"). But it will take more than love to save the cities. Weaver is under no illusion that the challenges that are now his will be met "in my lifetime-certainly not in my span of public office...