Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only one who wasn't fretting last week was modest Dorothy Dobson. She had always dreamed of being a famous singer-and this was fame of a sort. She only wished her three notes had been better. "They were," said she, "the tiniest bit sharp...
...Sharp disapproval of the $60,000 World War II memorial plaque recommended Saturday by the Saltonstall Committee was registered last night by the Alumni Committee for a University Activities Center...
Neither of the girls gets him, and Miss Winters gets nothing, finally, but a lead slug in her midriff. But not before her shrewd playing has made Tory a wench to be remembered. Larceny ends on a sad note, because sharp direction and dialogue have made its crooks into likable lads who seem to be getting a raw deal. This medium-budget picture's brisk, realistic details may make its manufacturers a tidy profit...
Amiably enough piloted from act to act by Tom Ewell (John Loves Mary), Small Wonder is most pepped up by the singing, spoofing and sass of attractive young Mary McCarty (Sleepy Hollow). With only one unhackneyed satirical target, the show has a sharp eye for such riddled ones as movie endings, magazine ads, the Jazz Age. The fresh gag is Ballad for Billionaires (music by Albert Selden, lyrics by Billings Brown). Sample...
...Away, he suddenly switched from a major to a minor key. In one duet between Lucy Lockit and her father, he ran two separate songs together, to make a striking question & answer fugue. At times, London critics found themselves listening to such tart dissonances as a C sharp and C natural grinding together; at other times, to an orchestral accompaniment that was as clear and gentle as Mozart. The songs seldom ended in the same key as they had begun, often wound up with a different tempo. But whatever Gay or Pepusch might have thought, London's critics came...