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...musical career began much earlier, however: At the age of two she was already appearing on WOR radio's show "Uncle Bob's Rainbow Room" as Bubbles Silverman--and the nickname of Bubbles has lasted through the years among members of her family...
...Haggard. Besides, the open road, the one-night gigs, meeting people-all these make a way of life that Haggard would no more give up than he would casting for smallmouthed bass in a cold, clear, wilderness lake. As he puts it in Ev 'ry Fool Has a Rainbow...
...underestimates the American public will never go broke!" cried "Professor" Irwin Corey, paraphrasing H.L. Mencken to a dazed National Book Awards' audience in Manhattan. Standing in for Thomas Pynchon, whose Gravity's Rainbow shared the 1973 fiction prize with Isaac Bashevis Singer's A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories, Comedian Corey confused the assembled authors, critics and publishers with a frenetic routine, prompting some to think that he was really the reclusive Pynchon himself. Others believed that his performance was a clever parody of Pynchon's tortuous style. The ceremonies were...
...quite rightly disliked the Munchkin production number and preferred Judy Garland in front of a simple backdrop singing "Over the Rainbow" and Bert Lahr chewing on his tail. The Crimson review in 1939 also went for Gone With the Wind (which has recently had a big revival) and for The Roaring Twenties (which still comes around now and again), "a saga of liquor and love that rolls through that fabulous decade into the gloom of the thirties." And the review highly recommends Bachelor Mother, in which Ginger Rogers, David Niven, and a jitterbug contest "all add up to delightful fare...
...from the problems that surround us daily, problems surely not so grave as those that faced Harvard students in 1939? Or is it possibly that we are escaping something within ourselves--our own lack of commitment, perhaps, to the world and its problems, this side of the rainbow...