Word: pizazz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Freshman coach Dana Getchell was indifferent to his team's overall performance. but did say, "I thought we played with a little more pizazz than we did against Dartmouth." Dartmouth snapped the Yardlings unbeaten string at 26 games with a 1-0 defeat last Friday...
Spirit and Place. A made-in-America company might bring more rhythmic pizazz to Calendar; none but the Royal could evoke the special virtues of Enigma Variations. Based on the orchestral score by Sir Edward Elgar, the work is a nostalgic visualization of a half-remembered spirit and place: green and pleasant England at the end of Victoria's reign. Before a stunning set by Julia Trevelyan Oman that at once suggests the languor of an autumnal afternoon and the oaken mellowness of a Worcestershire estate, the Royal's dancers bring to life the Malvern Circle of friends...
Some good acting gets lost in Nichols' vain attempt to prove himself a purveyor of cinematic pizazz. Bancroft and Hoffman are more capable than the script or direction allows them to demonstrate: Bancroft disappears altogether, and Hoffman is forced into too many blankfaced ambiguous close-ups. Katherine Ross's perfect pre-Raphaelite beauty overshadows her valiant attempt to create something from nothing, an attempt which almost succeeds (as if it matters whether anyone so gorgeous can act). The Graduate's best performance comes from Murray Hamilton as cuckolded Mr. Robinson, an all-too-tangential figure in the proceedings...
Decked out in dazzling exaggerations of turn-of-the-century elegance, topped off with such hats as dreams are made of, she struts and swaggers new pizazz into the undistinguished material that Carol Channing, Betty Grable, Martha Raye and Ginger Rogers have done so well by. The Bailey way with a wink or a wiggle or a throwaway line is pure pleasure, and the rich, round raunchy Bailey voice can wrap up and deliver anything singable...
...which is roughly equivalent to taking on Muhamed Ali in a match and two returns. She had absolute control over her orchestra and managed to communicate her energy to the players. Her staging of the opera was full of the traditional business but also full of pizazz and fell down only in the Windsor Oak scene, which was uninspired except for the entrance of half the chorus on stilts...