Word: pattering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...collection includes everything from introductions to cartoon books to patter for Playboy, 21 pieces in all, some more than 30 years old. The Notebooks is the best piece, precisely because it tells, in strong, wry Thurber talk, why the rest should not have been printed at all. Only Thurberphiles who want to have his "complete oeuvre" on their shelves will welcome the book, and oeuvre, after all, is a word that would have left Thurber annoyed and embarrassed...
...Hope Show (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). An hour of music and patter, including a Hope-ful sketch called "Bird Brain of Alcatraz," with Guests Jack Benny, Ethel Merman and Bobby Darin...
...What little magic there is in any G & S show, you see, comes in the best of its songs, which--like the madrigals and the ballads--are at once both charming pieces of music and very gentle spoofs of themselves. The rest of the show, however--the jokes, the patter, the thundering choruses--is so much dross: dull, dated, tiresome stuff. Unfortunately, Mr. Tigar, or whoever, seems to find the dross screamingly funny, and the music rather second-rate. Consequently, he has built up an unmusical and ungainly case which closely resembles the staggerer I posed to you a while...
...clear as air in the autumn, a vibrant, strong, untrained and thrilling soprano. She wears no makeup and her long black hair hangs like a drapery, parted around her long almond face. In performance she comes on, walks straight to the microphone, and begins to sing. No patter. No show business. She usually wears a sweater and skirt or a simple dress. Occasionally she affects something semi-Oriental that seems to have been hand-sewn out of burlap. The purity of her voice suggests purity of approach. She is only 21 and palpably nubile. But there is little...
...Bella's real political convictions, if any, are hard to determine. His Marxist patter-one-party rule, socialization of agriculture and industry, neutralism in foreign affairs-is not very different from that used by many other Middle Eastern and African leaders. So far there is no evidence that he is a Communist-but he could well become a Communist tool. Like the other neutralists, he is quite willing to accept aid from the West, but wants stronger ties with the Soviet bloc. He has condemned the moderates' desire for cooperation with France. He is also a strong supporter...