Word: songstress
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...deep-bosomed, lynx-eyed Peruvian songstress, now retired, who also had a four-octave range. * The rest of the top ten, in order: Sean Connery, Elizabeth Taylor, Jack Lemmon, Richard Burton, Cary Grant, John Wayne, Doris Day, Paul Newman, and Elvis Presley...
...tlich master of the new formula. All he has to defend himself against his telephone callers is a tape-delay device, which gives him a four-second time lag in which to erase obscenities from the air. To ease the strain, there is an occasional celebrity visitor such as Songstress Edie Adams or Rocky Marciano...
Divorced. By Eartha Kitt, 36, lynx-like Negro songstress famed for a near-purrfect version of Monotonous: William McDonald, 34, white Los Angeles real estate man; on grounds of cruelty; after nearly four years of marriage, one daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...Furies who pursue the playwright are his mother, his first wife, and his second wife, Marilyn Monroe. The transparent disguising of himself as a lawyer named Quentin and of Marilyn as a bigtime songstress named Maggie exists to be penetrated, and Miller's uninhibited autobiographical candor poses for playgoer and critic alike the disconcerting task of judging the conduct of his life and his code for the conduct of life. Yet to dispute Miller's moral conclusions, or lack of them, is not to deny the jarring impact of his play, which Director Elia Kazan has charged with...
...Manhattan key club. But essentially the members of this eclectic hell divide be tween the damned and the dim. The damned shine phosphorescently. The dim give off flickers of goodness. Among the damned: an ambisextrous movie queen (Salome Jens), a thuggish labor czar (Neville Brand). Among the dim: a songstress with maternal yearnings (Carol Lawrence), a lawyer with a festering case of Korean combat fatigue (Jack Kelly), an aging poet-turned-furniture-dealer (Walter Abel) and his wife (Carmen Mathews) who has a Ponce de Leon complex. From 1 a.m. to dawn, these characters soliloquize, harmonize (around a stage-center...