Word: pizazz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bereft and expressive. Paul O'Neill's Pooh-Bah is engaging and suitably gorged, if a little stock. Dennis Crowley, as the Lord High Executioner is the spitting image of Alfred E. Neumann, and reacts to this madness just as the old man would, reeling off his "list" with pizazz. And Willis Emmons as Pish-Tush illuminates the show: of all the leads, he's most able to sing and act at the same time while compromising neither--the first requirement of a good G&S performance...
...both the music and text were upstaged by the magic. Several of Houdini's feats, including his water-can escape, were authentically and grippingly duplicated by Mark Mazzarella, a 19-year-old college sophomore. But the cost of going for such theatrical pizazz was a loss of psychological depth. Houdini offered almost no plot, almost no human interplay. Throughout the evening, a large portrait of the magician stared out at the performers from the ear of the stage, as if challenging them to account for his mysterious driven nature. The tricks, the career, the public appropriation...
...Connally made a stem-winding speech to 600 Midwestern Republican leaders at a convention in Indianapolis. A subsequent poll of 254 delegates showed that 29% favored Connally for the nomination, while Reagan trailed with 21%. Admits a rival, conservative Congressman Philip Crane of Illinois: "Connally has a lot of pizazz...
...pert-figured, high-kicking Rockettes. On seasonal holidays there were, in addition, lavishly staged extravaganzas during which the mammoth stage might be transformed into a cathedral, or a racecourse for chariots drawn by live horses, or a harbor bearing the illusion of full-size ships-all glorified by the pizazz of lighting trickery quite beyond the capability of other theaters...
...accepts the boundary lines and then plays the game for all he is worth. His Eroica, for example, is a shade faster than before, his Fourth broader, darker, more ruminative. But what really sets this album, apart-from its ancestors and competitors alike-is its distinctive blend of youthful pizazz and seasoned know...