Word: schmalzing
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Adventure. Garson gets Gable and the customers get schmalz (TIME...
...varieties call for a versatile voice. Danny has it. It is a high baritone, with a two-octave range. He can impersonate an Italian baritone, bleat like an Irish tenor, mimic a coloratura soprano (almost reaching high C) or plead like a Slavic gypsy singer with basso profundo and schmalz...
...Spike's rendition of the Ink Spots' hit, You Always Hurt the One You Love, the "beloved" is shot, hung and poisoned. His Blue Danube is Wayne King schmalz - plus four strategically placed belches. On the Jones agenda are a poke at Polonaise, called Chopin's Mayonnaise; a lampoon of Xavier Cugat called Benzedrine Beguine, and a new version of Carmen. Spike is eager to try his most ambitious experiment: a section of cellos playing under water. He hasn't yet figured...
...thought it had a sure-hit show, with "good schmalz." One official ex plained why the actual wedding ceremony was not broadcast: "We thought it would be in poor taste...
...Schmalz, a Yiddish word widely applied on Broadway to a certain type of singing and acting, means literally "rich...