Word: tunefully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...McCarthy, in Roy Cohn's presence, or after a session with Cohn, sang an entirely different tune. The implication was embarrassingly clear that, if the Army report was accurate, Kingmaker Roy Cohn had arrived at a new dimension of influence...
...thin, hawklike Deputy from the Communist "Progressive" party leaned over the tribune and taunted the Government Ministers. France, he insisted, is paying for U.S. aid by letting the U.S. call out the tune...
...Girl loiters through a book burdened with one of those musicomedy love stories, and barnacled with scores of those jokes that are written in collaboration, as though no one writer cared to take the blame. It sprawls through a succession of Sigmund Romberg songs, all just sufficiently tuneful to sound like the same tune. In the face of this, the brighter bits-the acting of London's Charles Goldner, a ditty called Up in the Elevated Railway, some of Agnes de Mille's dance routines and most of Eldon Elder's sets-fail to count...
...reported that I had identified "an obscure melody" as Mendelssohn's War March of the Priests [TIME, Feb. i], I must say I was flattered by the inference that my musical knowledge was so eclectic and vast. Dear me, the reason why I knew the name of that tune was because I had marched to it to get my high-school diploma and had for years confused it with Pomp and Circumstance. But once somebody called my attention to the error, and, thank heaven, I profited by the correction-or at least, Brooklyn's Norwegian Children...
...ballads-and a catchy Arthur Schwartz tune called "Good Time Charlie" which Miss Booth doesn't sing either--make up the rest of the score. She is stuck with scraps and reprises and a chorus of "In the Good Old Summertime." She does have a minute to herself in the third scene when she dances with little Robert Jennings, but the enthusiasm of the audience goes unrewarded and the play plods forward without an encore. By cutting some of the dull subplot of ingenue Carol Leigh and dancer Ray Malone, the producers could add a raucous number to Miss Booth...