Word: trappings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Parent Trap [1961]. Are we seeing double? Nope, It's just Hayley Mills playing identical twins in this explosive Walt Disney laff riot. Hearty guffaws for the whole family. You'll split your sides belly-laughing at this good, clean FUN! Ch. 4, 8:20 p.m. Color; 2 hours, 40 minutes...
...they will want to be at their TV sets next week when Sills stars in a two-hour presentation, in English and color, of Donizetti's 1840 comic opera Daughter of the Regiment (PBS, Monday, Oct. 14). Taped last summer during an actual performance at the Wolf Trap Farm Park for the Performing Arts outside Washington, D.C., Daughter marks Sills' first appearance on TV in a complete opera. It is also a highly amusing adornment of Sills' lengthy repertory of damned dames and loony ladies. It further affirms her reputation as a singing actress without peer...
...Daughter of the Regiment stands somewhere in that middle ground. In the Wolf Trap production, which has a splendid supporting cast (notably Tenor William McDonald, Bass Spiro Malas, Mezzo Muriel Costa-Greenspun) and is crisply conducted by Charles Wendelken-Wilson, Sills plays Maria, a lowly orphan girl who has been adopted and reared by a regiment of Napoleon's soldiers in the Austrian Tyrol. The love of her life, Tonio, a young peasant who wears short pants and sings a high C at any sign of affection, joins the troop to be near her-alas, just as Marie...
...good deal of time demanding money to have her teeth fixed. Harriet at first seems too kind and innocent to live. But her unreflective goodness amounts almost to genius. When Blaise's second family comes to light and he begins to dash about with one foot in the trap of matrimony and the other in the bucket of illicit love, Harriet takes the edge off the hostility-and the hilarity-by befriending the illegitimate Luca, who is seriously disturbed and possibly retarded...
That promise set the trap. Nixon insisted upon listening to each tape once more before transmitting it to the court...