Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Webber's sweet tenor voice suits the usually many lyrics in Gondoliers; through he may not be quite up to the antics of his neighbors in Barataria, he makes their antics tolerable to listen to. If Martin is Lear the mad, Webber is Hamlet the brooding...
...DREAM DUET (RCA Victor) is not Flagstad and Melchior any more but Anna Moffo and Sergio Franchi. No kidding. Here they sing a syrupy selection (Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life, Sweethearts) and, but for the bad repertory, all but live up to their brazen billing...
...Communists love the idea. They are saying reassuringly that they would not make France pull out of the Common Market or NATO as the price of "workers' unity." That is the same sweet line the Communists are taking in Italy, where the Reds' longtime allies, the leftist Nenni Socialists, are on the verge of entering the government...
...news in the skin game is that it's getting masculine to be feminine. The leathery look in men is Out. Creams and cleansers, powders and pomades, hair-tinting combs, face-tightening masks, nail lacquers, hair sprays and sweet-smelling stuff in all sizes, shapes and prices are booming in the male market, and the cosmetics industry is rushing to repackage its female products into something for the boys...
Jonathan Gordon, who plays Birdie, makes a splendid oaf. His "Sincere" song, punctuated by screaming teenagers and collapsing matrons, is easily the high point of the first act. Birdie, about to be drafted, makes a trip to Sweet Apple, Ohio, where he is to bestow his last leering kiss--coast-to-coast--on Kim MacAfee, typical teenage fan (played charmingly by Carol Ketty). In Sweet Apple he runs into Kim's father, Gilbert Nussbaum, who counters Birdie's laughable lecheries with wonderfully ineffectual tantrums. The father's rage subsides, briefly at least, when he appears on the Ed Sullivan show...