Word: shoddiest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shoddiest things in the show is Harry Warren's music. The songs are not actively unppleasant, they just make no impression whatsoever. After the performance ends, it is quite impossible to remember more than about eight notes, and the effort involved even then seems hardly worthwhile. Director Marshall Jamison's clumsy efforts to emphasize the music by sending everybody but the soloist offstage during the important numbers hardly help to make the songs more memorable...
...week's end, even the News's own columnist, Ed McAuley, was doing some soul-searching. "Newspapers live their shoddiest hours in the time of such court trials as the [recent] paternity case...