Word: pizzaz
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...Caroline found a friend, Julia, a four-year-old, at Belizzi. This place used to be called Pizza Pizzaz, and retains that spirit, with its indoor play area for kids. Caroline went romping and jumping with Julia, and the kids' parents exchanged greetings: "Quite a day." Awful." I told Julia's mother that my wife was in New York - in midtown - and hoping that trains would roll soon from Grand Central...
...lord. Now I know what it must have been like to have seen the Beatles or Elvis perform live. Those entertainers, of course, combined talent with pizzaz. Now, there's a trace of talent, an occasional whizbanger of pizzaz, and a hell of a lot of screaming. Oh the screaming! It has to rank as the eighth wonder of the world. It shatters ear-drums, gives you an irregular heartbeat, gives you irritable bowel syndrome I felt like I was in a hyena stampede for two hours. Why are these girls fainting, throwing their underwear, crying their eyes...
...TAKE AWAY the expensive flash and pizzaz and what's left is a collection of some of the most horrible, groaning puns you've ever laughed yourself sick over...
...minute overtimes belonged to the Crimson. Six minutes in, Kelly Landry broke into the Princeton box, freezing the goalie. She then fed freshman Electa Sevier for the goal. "We tried to dig out and did a great job," said Coach Bob Salise. "We had the spunk and pizzaz to get the equalizer and the go-ahead...
Oliver Reed, looking like a well-dressed rain barrel, does not do much, but he is appallingly convincing at scenes involving mayhem and sadism. The script, by Richard Harris and Eleanor Perry, is proficient, and the direction by Anatole Litvak, a kind of Preminger without pizzaz, gets the job done. So does The Lady, if you have an empty evening that requires nothing more than passive entertainment...
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