Word: valiante
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...slow start. With the exception of Teddy, each of the actors has his role down. Only Ron Mallis, as the cuckolded Ph. D. has problems, unable to shake off a pre-occupation with precise diction until well into the second act. Susan Yakutis as his wife does a valiant job of keeping up their dialogue in the first act, but he seems not to understand quite what is going on. By the second act, though, he has joined the group, has become as mad as the rest, and seems to be finally cued...
...thing for hippies right now in New York," says the underground cartoonist Mad John Peck. In Berkeley, the freaks have formed their own cab company, and the cabs are psychedelically painted bombs navigated solely by longhairs. Being a letter carrier is also acceptable, and mailmen with Prince Valiant cuts abound. Some straight newspapers like the Boston Globe have allowed invasions of freak reporters, and "a lot of freaks are into cybernetics," according to Peck. But the acceptable straight fields are few, and most of them are near the bottom of the economic ladder...
That is not what No, No Nanette does, but nostalgia is the impetus of the evening. Nostalgia is rampant in the presence of Ruby Keeler, 60, who emerges as a warmly appealing personality and dances with a valiant nimbleness. Nostalgia propels the tap-Rockette sequences of the Busby Berkeley chorus, with its mass assembly-line dance routines supervised by the 75-year...
...wasting disease in a Swiss sanatorium 60 years later, he produced over 9,000 works. Perhaps one could no more put on a "definitive" Klee show than fix the shape of a swarm of bees. But the one at the Haus der Kunst in Munich has made a valiant attempt, mustering 537 paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints to memorialize the 30th anniversary of his death...
Help from G.M. The 1971 model year looks like the year of the small car, and Chrysler is well positioned to catch the trend. In January, it will begin importing two minicars, the Japanese-made Colt and the English-produced Cricket. Added to the Valiant and Dart, which have captured 37% of this year's compact market, they will give Chrysler the broadest range of small cars offered by any U.S. automaker...