Word: richer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Donald Harron's bow-legged Verges and all the men of the watch are properly mangy. But Larry Gates as the pompous and malapropistic Dogberry is disappointing to one who remembers Edward Finnegan's magnificent portrayal here at the Brattle Theatre. It is a far richer part than Gates makes...
...Middle East, Iraq is the only land rich in both oil and water. Saudi Arabia, richer in oil, is water poor. Last week Saudi Arabia announced that its old rival, the Hashemite Kingdom of Iraq, has granted it permission to tap the Iraqi river Euphrates for drinking water. Under their $28 million plan, cleared during King Saud's state visit to Baghdad last May, the oil-rich Saudis will hire international contractors to draw some 35 million gallons daily at a point near the site of ancient Ur, purify it at the riverside plant, and pipe it some...
...with a real mom and pop. The big pitch in Loving You is that Deke, wide-eyed and unspoiled, is victimized by a predatory lady pressagent (Lizabeth Scott) and a scheming bandleader (Wendell Corey). But the harder the venal two try to cheapen and exploit this naive lad, the richer he gets. He just can't avoid...
...Especially the U.S." On the eve of flying to London for this week's meeting of Commonwealth Prime Ministers, Diefenbaker declared: "It will be my privilege to tell them that we want to continue to stand together as a family, for richer or for poorer, for better or for worse, in good times or in bad times, in success or in adversity, by God's grace, in friendship and in harmony with all the world, and especially the United States of America...
...chorus sang in as many as twelve parts. Some found the rainbow shower of sound to their liking; others were puzzled and distracted, wondered whether the oratorio-like work was an opera at all. But Paris' Le Monde called it a miracle. The Neue Züricher Zeitung found the score "an ingenious summary of all that makes Schoenberg the founder of a new musical language." That language-like the words of Schoenberg's Moses-was abstract, sometimes difficult to bear, but never to be ignored...