Word: ventriloquist
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...makes him dictator. For all his new-found power, Jose still admires only talent, and he has a collection of great talents on the way to perform in his privately owned nightclub-a Billy Graham-type U.S. evangelist, a Cuban lad whose only skill is sexual proficiency, a cynical ventriloquist. Author Gary manages to have his way about the failure...
...penchant for carrying tunes, although his knees seem to suffer now and then under the load. He sings rapidly, in a style that could be called 2Oth century Benzedrine, slurring the lyrics of Up a Lazy River or Clementine through lips that move no more than a carny ventriloquist's, while the song seems to be coming out of his left ear. He is versatile. At one moment he could be the kid brother of Eddie Fisher, a little later the son of Perry Como, later still the natural child of Frank Sinatra...
...Larger Weakness. Some of the soldiers on the British side were as resourceful as only years in Singapore could teach: an Australian sergeant combed the streets with a ventriloquist whose many voices caused the Japanese to pop their heads out from their trees while the sergeant picked them off. But most of the troops were too poorly trained, too disorganized to have the stomach to fight to save Singapore...
Five Fingers (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Few spy rings ever boasted so tricky a talent as Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen brings to Dossier, second in the series...
Solid Advice. In Sydney, Australia, the Rev. Jack Leonard, who is also a ventriloquist, showed up for Sunday school with a wooden dummy on his lap, obliged his youthful parishioners to listen while it delivered a 20-minute sermon...