Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Choreographer Jerome Robbins shaved away sentimentality in favor of movement and daughter; Cyril Ritchard turned Captain Hook ( "the swiniest swine of them all") into a Pirate of Penzance with a fine mixture of cringe and gusto. Of the two sponsors (total payout: $450,000), Ford made palatable its light-touch commercials; RCA tried to fob off Vaughn Monroe in a fantasy of its own and suffered by contrast. After a look at the size of the audience (an estimated 65 million) NBC announced that it will stage a second production of Peter Pan at Christmastime...
Feeling that in the modern world the social graces are just nothing without a touch of psychology, the author includes incisive definitions of common Freudian terms...
...acting technique separates most of the others in the cast from the standard set by the three principles. Robert Beaty understands his part as a kindly, ineffectual old man but plays him as something of a crochet and far too sharp a thinker. Colgate Salsbury lacks the proper touch of fatuous pomposity and caricature in his version of a bumptuous farm manager. But neither man is at all bad in his role. Lee Jeffries and Patricia Leathem are good at saying their lines but have done little to improve on them in a way that might capture attention. The general...
...Tiny El Salvador takes the traveler through rich coffee land on paved roads, and he crosses Honduras' corridor to the Pacific on good gravel. Nicaragua's part of the highway, looping here and there to touch at the various ranches of President Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza, is mostly macadam...
...will probably spend many months longer on Broadway. The reason is not that it offers anything unusual in the way of merit or novelty; it seems almost frightened of anything distinguished. The reason lies rather in a formula professionalism, a kind of glazed mediocrity, a persisting common touch that, here and there, is a touch too common. Silk Stockings is all Main Stem and no flower...