Word: pinocchio
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...primitive imagist (the psychedelic merchants preempted that role), but a giant corporation whose vast assembly lines produced ever slicker products to dream by. Many of them, mercifully, will be forgotten, but the essential Disney creations, the cartoon comics, the full-length animated features such as Fantasia, Snow White, Bambi, Pinocchio, Cinderella-even that fantasy-filled 300 acres of dream puff called Disneyland-will remain as monumental components of American culture...
...would you believe that no-one connected with the production or the Festival Academy knows how to pronounce the name of Petruchio? Throughout the show it is invariably spoken with a k-sound, apparently by false analogy with Pinocchio. The Italian name is properly spelled Petruccio, and the Shakespeare Folio made it Petruchio precisely to provide a phonetic spelling for English-speaking actors. Thus it should be pronounced with a ch-sound as in "church." (The identical situation obtains with the name Borachio in Much Ado About Nothing.) Furthermore, Shrew's verse requires, except in three or four lines, that...
...SKELTON HOUR (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Francomime Marcel Marceau appears in four of his favorite sketches, and plays Pinocchio to Red Skelton's Geppetto as well...
...spectrum for the off-color, no time in his world for anything but the basic games of laughter, song and pantomime. While others find subject for sport in drugs, dames, madmen and sit-ins, Danny Kaye looks around, beyond and behind him toward a world where a Pinocchio of a man, his tongue cast in quicksilver, can get people laughing simply by reminding them of the children they used...
...tell a joke. Kenneth Tigar shouts his jokes too, but that's because he realizes they are all basically the same joke (he is asked to call everything "Darlin'") and politely tries to hide the fact. (Teuber, incidentally, has been made up to look like a cross between Pinocchio's father, Charley Weaver of the Jack Paar show, and Angelo Winemaker of the TV commercials...