Word: sweete
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...real western hero of the period bore little resemblance to the sweet-smelling show-business variety of latter days. He was literally ''wild and woolly and full of fleas/And seldom curried below the knees." Instead of skintight pants and store-boughten fumadiddle. he wore a pair of wide "hair pants." cut straight off the cow. He stank of bear grease and was usually crawling with "pants rats," as he called his lice. He slept with whores and Indian squaws, because there weren't many other women around, and whenever he got the chance, he got bear-eatin...
...with open eyes Singing birds sweet Sold in the shops For the people to eat, Sold in the shops of Stupidity Street...
...Sweet Bird of Youth (by Tennessee Williams) is very close to parody, but the wonder is that Williams should be so inept at imitating himself. The sex violence, the perfumed decay, the hacking domestic quarrels, the dirge of fear and self-pity, the characters who dangle in neurotic limbo-all are present-but only like so many dramatic dead cats on a cold tin roof...
Whatever its shortcomings, Bird opened with the sweet smell of commercial success in its beak. The advance ticket sale reached $390,000, and the screen rights were sold to M-G-M for a sliding-scale sum that may reach $400,000. A long Broadway run was assured when the seven critics of the Manhattan dailies, seemingly under the sway of collective hypnosis, unanimously hailed the Williams drama. Said the Herald Tribune's Walter Kerr: "Enormously exciting." The Times's Brooks Atkinson called it "one of Mr. Williams' finest dramas." The most startling display of devotion came...
...Boston's favorite sons, Jack Levine and Hyman Bloom, have a small exhibit of their early works and a few late ones, under the auspices of Fogg. Had the show been housed in the museum itself it would have reached a larger audience, but the event is sweet news for denizens of the sputtering cell...