Word: rhyming
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...musical, Anyone Can Whistle, a precious fable about a smalltown miracle, and 1965's Do I Hear a Waltz? (with music by Richard Rodgers) failed to pay box-office dividends. The rest of the time has been a steady climb, built on internal verse, infernal verse, trip-hammer rhyme schemes and time schemes, sublime schemes, which began their ascent at about the time South Pacific dominated Broadway...
...RHYMING. Clever rhyming is easy. To rhyme orange is no trick at all. Anybody...
...Hammerstein said that the really difficult word to rhyme is a word like day, because the possibilities are so enormous. One of the things I've learned is that the way to get a laugh in a song is not through the cleverness of the rhyme but by what you're saying. The biggest laugh in Forum is the line in the warriors' song: "I am a parade." That's a brilliant line-and it's not mine, it's Plautus...
...becomes part of a cartoon interpretation of C.P. Snow's Two Cultures. Head of the Verbal World is King Azaz; his dreaded brother and rival, the Mathemagician, is "Ruler of Numbers." A series of adventures eventually earns Milo the role of peacemaker: he rescues the maidens Rhyme and Reason from a castle prison, thereby eliminating the sibling rivalry...
...Ironically, it is the plot that bogs the film down. More than 20 characters are thrown at the audience in 90 minutes; children will barely be able to recognize them before they disappear forever. Morever, such villains as the Lethargians are a thousand times more delightful than the vapid Rhyme and Reason, a pair gooey and artificial enough to have come directly from the top of a cake...