Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sweet Clarity. Blizzards of shrapnel tear words out of sentences. A thought is splintered with the crack of a sniper's rifle...
...Sweet Bird of Youth. Tennessee Williams' Bird was an artistic turkey on Broadway, but as directed by Richard Brooks it makes a noisy and sometimes brilliant peacock of a picture. Paul Newman and Ed Begley are excellent, and Geraldine Page as an aging cinemama blazons a memorable skidmark on the go-away-and-don't-come-back trail...
...Sweet Bird of Youth (MGM) messed up its cage for a season on Broadway, and has now been plumed with Metrocolor...
...have suffered too much and too long. I would like not to feel for a while." Fitzgerald died in 1940 of a heart attack, at the age of 44. Of his last years, Turnbull says: "Fitzgerald seemed like some mild-mannered clerk-sweet, gentle, amiable, but devoid of temperament or bite, as if he had been erased...
Invariably, the "show" lives up to the doorman's guarantee. A girl enters to the tune of an unlikely song such as Sweet Georgia Brown, clanked out by an instrumental trio. Slowly she sheds a shoddy evening gown while the audience yells, "Take it off, Baby, take it off!" When she has stripped down to pure buff, she bumps and grinds for a few minutes, then glides around the circle of ringside tables, stopping whenever a clean-cut, brush-topped young man reaches out to touch-test her salient features...