Word: tim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...loooo, my dear friends," flutes the voice. Blowing kisses, fluttering his large, bony fingers and rolling his eyes, Tiny Tim skips onstage like Bea Lillie in drag: shoulder-length locks, tattersall sports jacket decorated with a sheriff's badge, plaid shirt and orange socks. He always carries a copy of the New Testament and lugs a soiled brown shop ping bag in which he always keeps such talismans as a dime-store compact (he uses pale Elizabeth Arden foundation makeup), two notebooks containing the lyrics of 500 songs, and, of course, his "dear, sweet" ukulele...
...wonder. Tiny Tim is a gentle soul who happens to be the most bizarre entertainer this side of Barnum & Bailey's sideshow. His specialties are pop songs from early decades of the century, and his performances flicker with a genuine talent for re-creating the styles of such stars of the era as Arthur Fields, Gene Austin, Ruth Etting and Russ Columbo. But Tiny dismisses the notion that he does imitations. "The spirits of singers whose songs I do are living within me," he insists. All this is pathetically easy to mock, yet Tiny's total absorption...
...latter event--Harvard's strongest--the Englishman was followed over the finish by teammates Doug Hardin in second and Tim McLoone in fourth...
...Mayer's stagings share space in Howard Cutler's handsome, structural set with four impressive short films by Tim Hunter, a brief slide sequence by David McClelland, and some fascinating footage taken by a recent American traveller to Hanoi. For once, mixed media is something more than convenient compromise. On this catholic stage, it does not seem improbable that Nathan Pusey and Che Guevara should meet to discuss the role of youth and the values of revolution, and in fact, in a dialogue excerpted from their writings, the two gentlemen seem occasionally to agree uncomfortably well...
...Tim Carden as Colin and Brian McGunigle as Tom have some work to do. Each man flashed brightly from time to time, then lapsed into fitful line-reading. Cardin, who resembles the paint can Dutch Boy, tried hard to be winsome as Tolen's bashful "student", and McGunigle tried hard to be impish. Much of the time they just tried...