Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Animal crackers, as Hollywood plays the game, is a pleasant, simple-minded pastime that offers few surprises. This time around, Mitchum & Co. see the usual things (poisonous snakes, charging rhinos, a terribly cute baby elephant), say the usual things ("You're different from any woman I've ever known"), do the usual things (he palavers with suspicious natives, she takes a nude dip in a jungle pool). At one point Mitchum is tempted to do something different. The head boy (Sabu), grinning miscegenially, offers him the use of his wife-"Plenty for two. Is custom." Is not custom...
Wood and his mates did not have a really pleasant afternoon in Cambridge last week but their mistakes rather than incompetence helped cause the defeat. Had they not offered those nice scoring opportunities to Mike Bassett and company in the second quarter the whole Cornell effort might have been much better...
Patty Duke, the superior child actress of The Miracle Worker, plays two roles as "identical cousins," one a square, the other a wild hare, in The Patty Duke Show (ABC). Her program works no miracles, but Patty, now 15, is a winning girl and pleasant to watch. Other shows are made palatable by three even riper pomegranates. Inger Stevens, for example, could stand still and smile for 30 minutes and win a higher rating than Joe Valachi pitching for the Dodgers. Unfortunately, she is imprisoned in the script of The Farmer's Daughter (ABC), a comedy series loosely based...
While at Harvard, Mme. Nhu hinted that she had not found her stay very pleasant. Towards the close of her Forum speech, she admonished her hosts. "I am amazed to hear these hisses, screams, and shouts. Why do you people not make as much noise about Hungary...
...Student Gypsy. Composer, Lyricist, Librettist and Director Rick Besoyan has moved from Off-Broadway to Broadway, and from a Little Mary Sunshine to a lot of deadly nightshade. Sunshine was a mildly pleasant little spoof of bygone musicals featuring red-coated forest rangers. Gypsy is an ornately boring take-off on woebegone musicals starring mythical Balkan kingdoms. Besoyan is about as creative as a coroner, and his flaming wit conceives ashy dialogue...