Word: pizzazz
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...pizzazz, Sha Na Na's return was a disappointment. Four years ago at Rindge Tech, the group gyrated through 32 nostalgia-filled numbers in a greasy tour de force of The Coasters, Danny and the Juniors, et. al. Of course, that was when the group was still reaching for the big time, when it was still groveling for a few scraps of attention. Last Friday the old vitality was gone. Sha Na Na performed about half as many numbers as four years ago, and most of those were short, flat, systemized, and impersonal. The band played for an hour...
Bunting and Chayes are only slightly less excited. Bunting did confess however that "I've had a hope that someone would come along with a position like McGovern's but a little more pizzazz." And when asked how he rated McGovern's chances realistically. Chayes--clearly irritated at the pessimism surrounding his candidate--replied quickly: "Better than everyone else rates them realistically...
...unlike Merrick, George Birnbaum has had the sense-and the guts-to rely on the booze in Take Me Along and not the pizzazz. Isn't it nice to know that there's a director around here with more integrity than Broadway's most successful showman...
...WONDERFUL WORLD OF PIZZAZZ (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Fashion, chic and hip, co-hosted by Carl Reiner and Michele Lee, with Pat Paulsen, the Harper's Bizarre and the Cowsills as guests...
Frederick Brant Rentschler, boss of Pratt & Whitney and its parent United Aircraft Corp., thinks the J57 has more pizzazz than any other engine. Says he flatly: "It is more powerful than any jet engine ever flown." Moreover, he thinks the J57 has gone a long way to overcome a great handicap of jets, their enormous fuel consumption. United's engineers say that it uses less fuel than anybody else has even promised for an engine of its size...