Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SWEET CHARITY. In old-fashioned romances, the pure hero pursued the shy heroine until he won her. In this modern fable, the soiled heroine (Gwen Verdon) chases the effete hero until she loses him. Despite its melancholy theme, the musical is electric entertainment...
...tailored sage-green flight suit, the pert, 5-ft. 2-in. redheaded veteran of the Air Force's Okinawa survival course is well known throughout the country. "I've learned to keep quiet and not to argue," she says. She knows that "you can always sweet-talk someone into doing something for you." Perhaps more important, "when telephone operators hear a female voice, they always try harder to get a connection through"-an incomparable asset when fighting the fouled-up communications of Viet...
...SWEET CHARITY is all sincerity, one of those few foolish females who don't know that honesty may be the worst policy. In an inventively staged musical, GwenVerdon is a dance-hall doxy who is too direct to be devious, then wonders why she can t find the best bait to hook...
...presents seventeen poems by the incomparable Sidney -- the barging personalist, the grizzled residumorph of a fat-boy complex who garnished two hundred pounds of soul with a Rasputinian beard, and converted a certain respect for violence into a poetry that is as idealistic as it is aggressive, and as sweet-tempered as it is visceral. The poems are followed by appreciative essays by Richard Tillinghast and Robert Grenier; both talk extraordinarily good sense about a poet who is so skilled in the arts of Personality that he sometimes denies us access to the poem itself...
Discussing economic power, he described relationships between "Farmer X and Farmer Y," in terms of acreage allotment and sweet potato co-operatives. In this country, he said, you have to organize just to get fertilizer...