Word: sweeting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lyrics are rather less saccharine than most C and W songs, but a couple of the tearjerkers are still there. True country music has simplified the job of the songwriter considerably. The major themes of the genre are "home, sweet home," Mother, and the girl-friend who is off with another man. Creativity is not a criterion...
...SWEET is the taste of victory, but sweeter still political triumph won against the odds or against long-prevailing winds. There was thus a special savor to the celebrations of many of the winners in last week's spate of off-year elections across the nation. Like the city's Mets, John Lindsay came from ignominy to take the mayoralty of New York, and did it without the endorsement of either major party. In Virginia, moderate Republican Linwood Holton seized the Governor's mansion, occupied for 84 years by Democrats. In Cleveland, Carl Stokes, the nation...
Answer: Humphrey Bogart (The Big Sleep); Dick Powell (Murder My Sweet); Robert Montgomery (The Lady in the Lake); George Montgomery (The Brasher Doubloon...
...evening-two ballads ("We're Home" and "If You Promise Me a Rose") in which she expresses her domestic hopes for her ne'er-do-well would-be beau Sid. The songs are pure artlessness carried to the level of high musical-comedy art. The melodic lines are as sweet as an innocent kiss and the lyrics ("Both Sid and me/ Like Company/ So if You're free/ We're home...") are as plain as the heroine and, for that reason, just as affecting. I only hope that Miss Simon drops a few stagey mannerisms (particularly a tendency to shoot...
...Madame's late Lamented Mother is about a squabbling couple who believe mistakenly that the wife's mother has died. The husband, played by Lloyd Schwartz, is hilarious as he rips off a string of consoling euphemisms and "There There's" about poor dear sweet mama "passing on ." The play stiffened a little bit from being slapstick and almost too fast to handle intelligently-but everybody laughed a lot so who cares...