Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Opera's Coloratura Lily Pons and rubber-faced Comedienne Imogene Coca. Wearing sequined black lace and looking enough alike to be sisters, they kicked up their heels and scampered through a lusty, full-throated lampoon of Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe warbling When Love Goes Wrong in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes...
...lights in the lobby to run through her brief scene as a honeymooning bride, the door swung open and in rolled an old lady in a wheelchair. It was famed French Novelist Colette, one of whose many bestselling novels, Gigi, had just been dramatized in English by Anita (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) Loos. Colette held up an imperious finger to halt the wheelchair as Audrey did her bit before the camera. Then she turned to her husband. "Voila," she whispered, indicating Audrey, "there's your Gigi...
...fills the clear air six nights a week. It rises from a huge, floodlit, green and yellow tent, home of Lambertville's Music Circus. Under the big top (where there is room for 1,500) the attractions are Broadway shows (with good second-string casts) such as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Call Me Madam, and such vintage operettas as Sweethearts, New Moon and Die Fledermaus. Last week, the Music Circus put on view a frothy revival of Orpheus in the Underworld, by Jacques Offenbach. The new title: To Hell with Orpheus...
...Prefer Death." Fatigued and discouraged from two weeks of trying to patch together a parliamentary majority, 72-year-old Premier de Gasperi rose to his feet for one last appeal. Democracy could not compromise with the Red left or the black right and survive, he insisted, speaking calmly but with a dry, bitter awareness of what was to come. The rightists could not be trusted, he said. As for the Communists and the Red Socialists: "We cannot entrust the country to either Communism or a coalition which would fall under the Cominform and invariably lead to forced labor, concentration camps...
...rabbis of the Mea Shearim told their congregations nothing of these compromises. At rallies of the extreme Orthodox, zealots cried that the army was preparing to stock houses of ill-fame with Orthodox girls. On the whitewashed walls of the quarters, posters appeared: "Daughters of Israel Must Prefer the Stake to Conscription." Yielding to pressure, Rabbi Herzog reversed himself, proclaimed that conscription of females would violate Jewish...