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...SENSE, all the men are more of a hindrance to the show than an aid, because they are expected both to provide comic relief (song and dance routines) and to represent the forces the women fight against. The music-hall element, though it does smooth the transitions between song and speech, also expected to connect a compelling but rather unwieldy storyline. The strain is too much, and the actors are so anxious to entertain (for that is the thrust of the routines) that they aren't convincing as the chauvinists they really...
With much fanfare, U.S. distillers last year brought on the market a new drink called light whisky. After years of effort, liquor firms got the Government to change its quirky distilling regulations and permit them to produce a smooth, flavor-thin whisky that they thought would appeal to modern tastes. A brave bevy of brands entered the lists Royal American, Galaxy, Honey-Go Lite, Free Spirit, Northern Light and others. Sadly for this latter-day charge of the Light Brigade, it has been Balaklava all over again. With Scotch to the right of them, bourbon to the left of them...
...best, Private Parts is a smooth parody of hellhouse horror melodramas, with an unsparing musical score by Hugo Friedhofer that furnishes a crescendo every five bars. The cast, however-except for Lucille Benson, who is gruff and quite good-seems to consist mostly of rejects from Central Casting, and the villain (John Ventan-tonio) looks like someone who spends most of his time in the balcony of all-night movies...
Shultz is seldom short on either fact or theory, although the softspoken, smooth-faced economist seldom expresses his ideas in song. His quick grasp of facts and theories, his skill in persuading the federal bureaucracy to act on them-plus an ironclad loyalty to the President-are the qualities that have prompted Richard Nixon to keep investing his Treasury Secretary with added clout. By now Shultz has become one of the two or three most powerful men in Washington...
...song is brilliantly structured; each transition is smooth and subtle. The rhythm section is once again supremely simple, Winwood's piano phrases take the song through each change in tempo, with a short sax solo improvised off the second statement of the chorus. Wood's a little gimmicky here, as he is all over the album, but the mix makes him unobtrusive as well. He relies on the intensity of the chorus to carry him through. After a restatement of the second theme, the chorus carries the song...