Word: ragging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...caused Russ some embarrassment-sometimes she cried in public. In 1949, two Miami women complained to the police that he treated the little girl cruelly; while his car was stopped at a traffic light, they said, they had seen him hit her with his fist and rub a dirty rag in her face. He was acquitted. The same year. Kathy obliged him by twice swimming five miles down the Mississippi. Bubba made 22 miles...
...cited by Dr. Levin involves a hunter and a rabbit: "A rabbit came into view and [the hunter] raised his gun to shoot; but suddenly his arms and neck began to quiver and in his own words, 'everything gave way under me and I squatted like a wet rag.' He had to abandon hunting because [whenever] a rabbit jumped up he would lose muscular tone and fall to the ground...
...Berlin score has been preserved almost intact. If his lyrics are somewhat flat, his melodies are spirited. "They Like Ike" the visionary number of 1949 has been replaced by "The International Rag," evidently less partisan. "You're Just in Love," which held up the show for six encores in New York, is repeated often enough to satisfy even the most dogged. And the first song, "The Hostess With the Mostes' on the Ball" is a good-natured introduction to Miss Merman and the spirit of the film...
...become a handsome, hilarious, surefire hit movie. Ethel Merman struts and shouts her way through her original stage role as a diamond-in-the-rough lady ambassador. Irving Berlin's catchy score is practically intact (dropped: the topical I Like Ike; added: Berlin's 1913 The International Rag and his 1940 What Chance Have I with Love?). At its Technicolored best-with Walter Lang's zestful direction, Robert Alton's dances and a topnotch supporting cast-the movie is a bouncier, better show than it was on the stage...
With the same vigor and originality which marked Bernstein's score for On the Town, his music is a pleasant change from the trite insipidity of current show tunes. "Wrong Note Rag" piques the ear with delightful dissonance, and in "Pass That Football," a tribute to the well-paid college athlete, the eloquent stupidity of Bernstein's lumbering rhythm is as comic as the lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green. While the intricacy of some of his music challenges both the lyricist and the singer's enunciation, Bernstein can write simple and memorable melodies. Wonderful Town has at least...