Word: songs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plan on retiring the Kiss Me, Kate album just yet, for once again. Cole Porter has come up with nothing in the way of a worthy replacement. The success of the pleasant, second-rate Can-Can seems to have taught Mr. Porter that a catch title and a song about Paris can fill in for his undisputed...
...while. But though there should be few complaints with Miss Neff, Don Ameche plays opposite her, as an American who turns her head and ideology. There are somewhere, I am sure, people who enjoy Mr. Ameche and his teeth. They will be gratified to see that he approaches a song with the same enthusiasm with which be extolled coffee for so many years. And he does enunciate clearly...
With its entertainers stretched from one end of Cinemascope to the other, There's No Business Like Show Business bristles with fast-paced song and dance routines that drag only when the projectors grind Marilyn Monroe across the screen. She is usually followed by a drunken Donald O'Connor, intent on being a nimble bad boy who dances with statues after Marilyn tires of the whole business...
...Cover) In an icy conference room in West Berlin one day last February, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov sang an old, sour song. After nine years of delay and diatribe, the Soviet Union still refused to sign a peace treaty ending the occupation of Austria. As Molotov droned on, a tall man slouched low in a chair, whittling on a pencil, calmly watching the shavings drop to the floor. When the Russian had finished, John Foster Dulles blew the dust from his pocketknife, snapped it shut and shoved it into his pocket. Then the U.S. Secretary of State leaned forward...
...hours the audience's eyes can take in as many as 30 separate sets, gaily worked in paper, while the ears are assailed by age-old Kabuki tunes in Broadway orchestrations and such Western song hits as Oh! My Papa with Japanese lyrics...