Word: roarious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This matters little to Warner Bros., which employs the face; as long as Dorothy Provine's makeup is straight, her most important register is cash. She registers that very nicely, as the blonde Charleston hoofer in the least roarious of TV's lost hours. The Roaring 20s. It is Dorothy's oooohing and shimmying that have kept the series afloat: each Saturday night, viewers who might better be occupied playing Guggenheim or watching Perry Mason turn faithfully to ABC. They endure anywhere from five minutes to an hour of stupefying drama about racketeers and handsome reporters that...
...prose is Welsh; he can be language-drunk or sly with bawdry, as Dylan Thomas was when he named the village in Under Milk Wood "Llareggub." As for the roarious Jethro, he is engaging as a boy, but loses credibility as he grows older; he is forever lapsing into derring-do, despite the derring-don'ts of his womenfolk. At the end, he escapes a platoon of dragoons and a mine cave-in, and boards ship for the U.S. Cordell can be counted on to tell more of this lad, who will arrive in the New World in good...
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