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...latest murders, piquant accident chronicles, slanderous pamphlets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Composers: Notes from a Master | 2/1/1963 | See Source »

...just the right flavor. Both costumes and settings show up well under an especially good lighting system, and entrances and exits are managed exactly on cue without some of the fuss that attends; them in some theatre-in-the-round productions. One could wish for a more authentic, more piquant savor to the lyrics, but Die Fledermaus remains much like Gilbert and Sullivan: there is much pleasure however and whenever it is done...

Author: By Richmond Crinkley, | Title: Die Fledermaus | 7/19/1962 | See Source »

Alternately fresh, brash and mellow statements by a trumpeter whose playing is full of oddball humor, off-center insinuations, and piquant flurries. Such numbers as Blue Waltz and La Rive Gauche give him a fine chance to stretch his ideas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Jazz Records | 2/16/1962 | See Source »

...Sultan of Turkey, played by Ezio Flagello, while hardly lecherous enough, flaunted his despotism and fat sufficently to be piquant. Ezio Flagello looks like a mean old sultan, and sings a professional bass...

Author: By Wilson LYMAN Keats, | Title: Command Performance | 11/20/1961 | See Source »

...play. On its own frothy comedy terms, it is a qualified success. Like most British drawing-room comedies, Lover is so well-bred as to seem overbred emotionally. The talk is good, but at times one also wishes it was either straighter or cleverer. While the plot is more piquant than the dialogue, a fine cast is more totally convincing than the plot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Sex as a Trinomial Theorem | 11/10/1961 | See Source »

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