Word: sheened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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High Spirits! (The Four Lads; Columbia, mono and stereo). One of the nation's best vocal quartets swings with infectiously high spirits through a selection of familiar spirituals-Ring Them Chimin' Bells, Bound for Glory-giving each one a fresh sheen without sticky studio gloss...
Trying to create characters with the sheen of surface and intensity of innard required to support his conception, Mr. Mayer has miscarried in one important direction. The young poet who represents innocence against both its opposites is an egregious failure. He spouts fine writing of one sort or another almost every moment he is on stage, and makes himself constantly obnoxious by being out of period and out of it generally: a verbose, stupid, and mawkish...
Bright Boom. In the garish '20s of the black bottom and the Charleston, Gilda's shimmy seemed to sparkle with a special sheen. She danced in the Ziegfeld Follies and George White's Scandals. She worked with the big names: Will Rogers, Gallagher & Shean. She earned the reputation of being one of the highest paid performers in the world, and she could brag of having made $4,000,000 in only ten years on the stage...