Word: sweeting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...remarks like that. Levant swiftly became a fixture at Beverly Hills parties: the lap dog with rabies. Though he continued to play and compose (he once studied with Arnold Schonberg), Levant's musicianship was never taken very seriously -except, of course, by Oscar. His classical composition had a sweet, derivative aura, reminiscent of movie scores. (He wrote several, including a mini-opera for Charlie Chan at the Opera.) His pianistic enthusiasm was showy but, except for Gershwin's music, Levant tended to pound the instrument like the back of an old crony...
...senior, had Burt on her show last summer. Oscar Levant once said he couldn't watch Dinah because he had diabetes. But, as Dinah tells it, the show she did with Burt would have been X-rated if it had run as taped. "I'm not that sweet," she says...
Best of all, Hone provides a portrait of Nasser's Cairo that occasionally reads like updated Lawrence Durrell -a city of dusty cricket fields and sweet coffee and the khamsin rustling the jacaranda trees, a city in which the revolutionary press censor plays badminton on the roof of his apartment house and keeps a suffragi downstairs to retrieve the stray shuttlecocks from the streets below.-Otto Friedrich
...train--stick out like Irish bulls in a full corral. There is interplay between Ace (Robert Preston) and Mrs. Bonner which says more about responsibility in male-female relationships (and with the slightest means) than I would ever have thought Peckinpah capable of. "All you are is dreams and sweet talk," says the woman. "And I sweetened the dreams as well, if you remember," says Ace. Ida Lupino, magnificent as the wife, hardens her look though there are tears in her eyes, and slaps his face. "I sure as hell deserved that." "You surely did," she says...
...exceptions, superior to that displayed by the same actors in the roles they take in the season's other two offerings. Darcy Pulliman, in the ingenue role of Ellie Dunn, performs most impressively. Unrecognizable from her competently giddy Minnie Fay in The Matchmaker, Pulliman's transformation here from sweet innocent girlhood to wise and willful womanhood is inspired. She comes to Captain Shotover's nautically decorated household to visit her friend Hesione, who schemes to save Ellie from marriage to a rich old industrialist. In the bargain she receives the heartbreaking knowledge that her hero of brief acquaintance, the swashbuckling...