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...them. The Rogers and Hart score, with a few exceptions like "Sing for Your Supper" and "This Can't Be Love," is only fair, and George Abbott's book must be counted right down there with the worst of them, proving again that one of Broadway's smoothest comedy directors never could write...

Author: By James Lardner, | Title: The Boys From Syracuse | 5/5/1966 | See Source »

Shriver's official mission was to present the Administration's request for $1.75 billion in poverty funds for the year beginning July 1. One of Washington's smoothest Capitol Hill performers, Shriver adroitly combined a recitation of OEO's concrete achievements with candid admissions of its faults. His interrogators responded with such phrases as "a great public servant" and "a domestic Westmoreland." Even the abrasive committee chairman, Adam Clayton Powell, oozed approbation. "How many stars do we give the general?" asked Powell. "One, five, six? Let's give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poverty: Six-Star Sargent | 3/18/1966 | See Source »

...that is inherent in the new international style of casting.* Stockwell, if a little too prettily dimpled for his own good, is a sensitive fugitive and lover; Lindblom is as undomesticated a domestic as a young sailor on the lam could wish. Melvyn Douglas, one of Hollywood's smoothest eyebrow-archers in the drawing-room comedies of the '30s, began a promising new career as Hud's grizzled old man, is even better now. But Rapture really belongs to the blazing Miss Gozzi, who begins as the same frightened, fantasy-struck child Cybele was, and graduates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Darkness in Brittany | 8/27/1965 | See Source »

...being latter-day Weavers, a combo with a conscience. They specialize in satirical numbers such as Which Hat Shall I Wear (a giddy social type talking to her Negro cleaning woman) and Yowzah ("Shonuf, Yassuh Boss!"), an acid comment on the Uncle Tom refrain. They have three of the smoothest voices in folkdom, and their racial protests, though skimpy in content, are strictly nonviolent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Broadway: Apr. 2, 1965 | 4/2/1965 | See Source »

...third season with a new 5100-foot Heron double chair and 30 acres of new trials. Stratton is one of the most substantial of the new developments and the lifts, trails and lodge have all been carefully--and expensively--built. The area's four double chairs are the smoothest and quietest in New England...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Why Not Try Lesser-Known Ski Area? | 2/11/1965 | See Source »

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