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Word: spumoni (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Something More! is masquerading as a musical comedy. It is tune-deaf and laugh-free. Lyrics like "tortoni, spumoni, and oh, my, minestrone" are better eaten than heard. The setting is Portofino, Italy, but the mood is about as authentically Italian as frozen pizza...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Frozen Pizza | 11/20/1964 | See Source »

...Spumoni Sodas. Fresh and cleanshaven, U.S. coffeehouses have emerged from Beatsville to branch out in a dozen directions, becoming everything from Great Books clubs to theaters for silent movies; but most significantly they have become intimate showcases for nascent theatrical talent. Greenwich Village's celebrated Phase 2 offers a sprightly 30-minute review. The present one is called Pass the Nuts, and includes a wonderful satire on Method acting: a student actor pretends he is a seed growing into a tree. Stewed Primes, the long-running revue at nearby Take 3, was so good that it moved into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nightclubs: Hipitaph | 2/10/1961 | See Source »

...Maid and the Thief and a revue based on the cartoon characters of Jules (Sick, Sick, Sick) Feiffer. Renaissance imitations have appeared all over Sunset Strip-the Unicorn, Pandora's Box, Chez Paulette, the Bit-but the closest approximation is Positano at Malibu Beach, where patrons sip $1 spumoni sodas, play Monopoly and pingpong, and take in entertainment that ranges from productions of G. B. Shaw to a nudist-colony director answering questions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nightclubs: Hipitaph | 2/10/1961 | See Source »

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