Word: singed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...presents thinly disguised Broadway and Paris turns, together with jazzed-up versions of Japanese fairy and folk tales, all held together in a sukiyaki-like mixture of muted native music and brassy show tunes. The 400 girls of the Takarazuka company (their motto: "Be pure, be right, be beautiful") sing everything from high soprano to near baritone, and the male impersonators among them pass out pinup photos by the thousands to their frenzied teen-age following...
...coal and leftover herring. There, University Man Porter runs a sweets stall in the marketplace, when he is not thundering harangues against Alison and her upper-middle-class family and friends. His wife loves him despite his ambition to "stand up in your tears, splash about in them and sing." But finally she has had enough and goes home to her parents, not telling Jimmy that she is pregnant. Her friend Helena (deftly played by Claire Bloom), a visitor in their garret, remains. Jimmy calls her an "evil-minded little virgin," but she becomes his mistress...
...citing gospel tunes such as I Need Thee Every Hour and Blessed Assurance with the blissful assurance that they are out of date and hard to sing, this musical ragamuffin exhibits the familiar technique of the collectivist revolutionists, viz., to state a false proposition as if it were a long-accepted fact. Persons like this Wiant are not competent to sense the enduring sincerity of the very gospel songs they presume to judge...
There was one chink in Quincy's Puritanical armor, however--a woman. Within a week after he heard Eliza Morton sing songs of Burns, he became secretly engaged to her--an engagement which lasted over two years. Although he took the usual precautions, such as checking upon her family connections and her property, Quincy apparently over-threw all the precepts his mother had instilled in him for love of Miss Morton. He never revealed his engagement to his mother until a few months before the wedding; the ceremony itself took place in New York, far from his Boston home...
...always liked to do kookie things," she insists, but now, with two unsuccessful marriages and years of unimportant roles behind her, she feels as if she is taking hold. Peter Gunn gave her steady work (though she still lives on vitamin shots and fights insomnia), and the chance to sing gave her a new career. Today, when she walks her dog around her modest Encino home, lonely Lola is beginning to think that the world looks good. And her tentative joy is reflected in the intimate warmth of her songs. "I never had the remotest idea anybody would ever...