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...interested in Harry Langdon, hit this. And if you're interested in the musical comedy form, likewise. Rodgers and Hart did the music and lyrics, and the whole picture is done in talking rhyme, which you will either find maddening or charming. Wonderful montage touches from a usually staid director, Lewis Milestone. It's all right to confuse this with Hallelujah, because that too is a period piece and worth seeing. King Vidor's 1929 all-black film was the first studio production not to jes have'em singin' and dancin' away...
...used by foreign journalists burst into tears when she heard the news. Headlines appeared in newspapers throughout the world, and messages of condolence started pouring into the Chinese capital. In a rare gesture of sympathy and respect, the flags at the U.S. consulate in Hong Kong and at the staid, very British Hong Kong Club flew at half mast, as did all the red banners in China. Chou Enlai, for a quarter century Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China and the able administrator of Chairman Mao Tse-tung's policies, was dead of cancer...
...also had regulations covering photo studios, so Touch of Class is now a nude-sketch studio. Milwaukee is currently trying to pass restrictions on all "body studios." San Francisco operators metamorphosed their businesses from bottomless bars to topless restaurants, massage parlors and now nudie encounter groups. In once staid Des Moines, which has some 20 sex-service businesses, a ban on outcall massage produced a new industry: outcall nude modeling...
...John Adams that emerges from The Book of Abigail and John contradicts the staid, dignified New England face he presented to the public. Deeply concerned with the welfare of his family, unsure whether his sacrifices are appreciated by his compatriots at home, the complex Adams unburdens himself to his "Portia." His romantic feelings never fade. Trapped in Boston while recovering from a smallpox innoculation, he complains to Abigail...
...miss seeing Bloomingdale's." Nordstrom, a company that operates 17 stores in Washington, Oregon and Alaska, makes a point of sending buyers on pilgrimages to Bloomingdale's. "It is a very flexible store," says Merchandiser Jack McMillan. "It's quick to see and develop new lines." In Boston, once-staid Jordan Marsh has patterned part of itself after Bloomingdale's by introducing modern paintings and rock music into a section of its men's store...