Word: roles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moving set of folk songs with powerfully restrained drama. Later she was on her feet again belting out a Heat Wave with the raucous abandon of a Merman. In the course of the long show, Diahann Carroll displayed only one serious weakness: an occasional tendency to oversell her role, as in her version of Just Lookin' Around, which was so coated with coy baby talk that the message never filtered through...
After countless TV appearances. Diahann landed the role of Clara in Sam Goldwyn's gilded production of Porgy, was horrified when Musical Director Andre Previn permitted her only to mouth the lyrics to Summertime, dubbed in the voice of French-English Songstress Loulie Jean Norman. Explains Previn: "Diahann's voice was a full five tones too low." But Previn also thinks that Diahann has only begun to find her way on that ladder. "When she learns to relax as much on a nightclub floor as in the studio," says he, "she ought to scare people to death...
...created an interesting variation on a type, and in mother and son he has clearly sought to probe one of the most difficult and tangled of human relationships. That he has not done so seems due partly to method and partly to mood. The dancer's role, whatever its own interest or its catalyst value, somehow obstructs the son and mother story and keeps it from breathing. Into a short play, Inge has further tossed comedy bits involving theater types and neighbor boys, and a farcical bed-hopping drunk scene. As a result, mother and son never get deeply...
Boff & Grunt. His frankness interlarded with frenzy and his open face barred with a villainous black mustache, Appel happily plays the abstract-expressionist role. Painting, he says, "is a battle! Boff goes the paint! It explodes! It's an adventure! It's destroying what I've done before!" At the easel, he swirls, smears and stabs with tubes in mid-squeeze, a palette knife, his hands and, occasionally, a brush, grunting as he works. In a few hours, the picture is done: a wet, gaudy mass of color violently heaped and stirred. Sometimes it is a brutally...
Such a time cut was forced by the changing role of U.S. women. Today's housewife not only runs her kitchen, but takes the children to school, picks up her husband at the train, belongs to the P.T.A. and a host of other organizations, reads the latest bestsellers, takes a voice in community affairs. Even more important, more than 20 million U.S. women hold jobs outside the home; they do not want to come home to overtime hours in the kitchen, so need foods that can be prepared quickly and without fuss. For such women processed foods are indispensable...