Word: successful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...near success of West Side Story certainly derives from its dancing. If there are special reasons for this-the brilliance of the choreographer, Jerome Robbins, and the choreographic rightness of the material-the point is still worth pondering. For despite much talk about integration and balance in serious musicals, musical drama-unlike musical satire or comedy -must have a master pulse. Hence the one alternative to what must virtually be opera is what will roughly be ballet...
...afterglow of the success of last year's Perry Como and Dinah Shore shows, the TV networks are taking a high shine to popular singers in jumbo productions. In fact, the TV season threatens to be, in the phrase of one critic, a case of "the bland leading the bland." TV's Pepsi-Cola girl, Polly Bergen, got mired down in embarrassingly labored exchanges with a shrill, scenery-chewing "panel" of other show folk, and only when she used her high but lilty voice did her seductive talents poke through. The Hit Parade was back (in stunning color...
Possibly the loudest and zaniest radio station in the U.S. is Pittsburgh's WILY, which tailors its programing and advertising to a Negro audience. This week WILY will die-of an overabundance of success-and in its place will arise station WEEP. There will be some program changes, occasionally some subdued music, and commercials beamed to a general audience. But for the most part, WILY fans will not be disappointed in WEEP. Announcers will still bray crazy commercials; odd-voiced groups will yell the lyrics to Chicken Baby Chicken, Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On, and assorted other...
When the two kinds of sperm have separated as completely as possible, Dr. Gordon collects them and uses them to inseminate female rabbits. When left to themselves, rabbits produce about half males, half females, but the rabbits that Dr. Gordon inseminated with X sperm produced 80% females. His success in producing males was not quite so good, but in all seven cases where all the rabbits in a litter were of the same sex, that sex was the one Dr. Gordon intended...
FIRST U.S. SUPERMARKET in a Communist country proved such a thumping success at Zagreb Fair that Yugoslav government's export-import agency will buy the market's refrigerator display cases, prepackaging equipment, shopping carts and checkout stands for about $30,000, use them to start supermarkets of its own. More than 1,000,000 Yugoslavs trooped through U.S. supermart during 15-day fair...