Word: spicing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SOUND OF MUSIC. This Rich ard Rodgers-Oscar Hammerstein musical about the Trapp Family Singers who fled Austria after the Anschluss of 1938 has more sugar than spice, but a buoyant performance by Julie Andrews makes the show seem irresistibly gemiitlich...
...daring of the Trapp Family Singers, who fled the Nazis in 1938. Though Director Robert Wise (West Side Story) has made capital of the show's virtues, he can do little to disguise its faults. In dialogue, song and story, Music still contains too much sugar, too little spice...
...Lifeline. Encouraged by such prospects, Captain John Hawkins sailed south in the fall of 1564. Having admonished his sailors to "serve God daily and love one another," he seized 300 hapless Negroes on the Guinea coast and went "bulting" off to Hispaniola, where he traded them for sugar and spice. The Spanish authorities-whose custom it was to entertain a foreigner with "a stake thrust through his fundament and so out at his necke"-sharpened their preparations. In 1568, Hawkins and his flotilla of six vessels were accosted by "thirteene greate shippes." In the ensuing scuffle, Hawkins lost four vessels...
Enough for Two. All week long, the freshmen in both House and Senate moved uncertainly through their new surroundings. They were a diverse group, among them a machinist from Wisconsin, a mortician from New York, a spice merchant from Michigan, a labor leader from New Jersey, and a college dean of men from Iowa. Many have names that carry family echoes of one kind or another; in addition to Bobby Kennedy joining his brother Ted, they ranged from Maryland's Democratic Senator Joe Tydings, stepson of the late Millard Tydings, to California's Representative John Tunney...
Like most moderns, Alfie suffers from overspecialization, and the comedy could use some of the variety and conflict that spice drama. Still, Alfie himself is irresistibly in the tradition of the picaresque novel, and his running asides are canny and constant delights: "If you make a married woman laugh, you're halfway there with her. Mind you, it don't work with a single bird. Get one of them laughin' and you don't get nothin' else." Bill Naughton was a truck driver before he began writing plays, but it is obvious that he kept...