Word: tunefully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suggest the belligerent action of Just You Wait, 'Enery 'Iggins, Producer Lieberson added a drum roll under Julie Andrews' vocal; for the poignance of Rex Harrison's acting during I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face, he added a solo violin playing the tune. The resulting record has an atmosphere all its own and is a delight to the ear-even if the eye must go without the show's magnificent appearance...
...Sullivan with drama, something other than comedy?' We've really looked into it, statistically and every other way, and everything we've learned shows that on Sundays from 8 to 9 we get largely family audiences, and that in that hour 99.5% of American homes will tune in on comedy. So we are going to give them what we think they want-a souped-up, slicked-down version of Tonight...
...vary considerably in merit. The best job is young Actor T. C. Jones's female impersonations, especially of Tallulah. Short-haired Billie Hayes makes a lively ditty of / Could Love Him, Virginia Martin a lively ditty of Talent. In La Ronde a foursome smoothly act out a liltish tune. Funniest spoof proves to be one more take-off on a big Ziegfeld-era staircase number, with a showgirl, rigged out like an entire orange grove, having a ghastly time on the stairs. There is fun in Steady, Edna, which rags a British jungle film, while an upper-class British...
Compounded of despair and loneliness, this is the kind of mental ballast that is inevitably tied down by chains of cynicism. Rays of compassion in poems and plays notwithstanding, Williams cannot hold back part of the contempt he feels for man and his role on earth. In Carrousel Tune it comes...
There are a few simple mountain ballads that sing a gentler tune, and The Christus of Guadalajara shows an embracing awareness of the meaning c-Christian pity. It is true that most of these poems, some of them rich in language and nearly all steeped in emotion, are bearish on the human condition. No one reading them or seeing Williams' latest play (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) is apt to suppose that Tennessee Williams is changing his point of view. But not even Williams can stew complacently in pessimism all the time. He knows that there really...