Word: wagonned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...evening with Betty Comden and Adolph Green is an invitation into high society. For more than 30 years this prolific writing team has enchanted theater audiences with book and lyrics for such hits as On the Town and Bells Are Ringing and delighted moviegoers with films like The Band Wagon and Singin' in the Rain. Now, for six weeks, Comden and Green are back on Broadway, doing their own numbers in their...
...Leslie Uggams and her long polished nails, you just have to laugh." Although Cruse liked Roots, he thought "the ending was contrived, commercialized and romanticized. For one thing, under those conditions, you don't just tie up a plantation owner to a tree and then get into a wagon and casually drive away as if there weren't bloodhounds and night riders who would track you down...
...almost an hour, while the law shivered under blankets only yards away, the plane sat motionless; the only sound was the static of radio chatter emanating from people who watched from other vantage points near by. Then three rented vans, a Mercedes sedan, a Chevrolet station wagon and a Ford van pulled up to the plane, and the unloading of burlap bales of highly prized Colombian marijuana began. Two hours later, with half the plane's cargo removed, the police charged from the bushes, acting so quickly that they captured without a struggle all the handlers, aircraft personnel...
...hockey version of the Budweiser Beer Wagon rolled into the Watson Rink last night, but instead of being driven by horses the semipro Budweiser Kings were led by former Crimson hockey players. Experience shone through, as the Kings beat the Crimson J.V. on a shot by Steve Didadgin '75 at 17:35 of the final period...
...group of gifted people working so far below their best talents that everything takes on the giddy air of a runaway charade. Director Vincente Minnelli, a flamboyant, lushly elegant stylist, has been responsible not only for some of the greatest movie musicals (Meet Me in St. Louis, The Band Wagon), but some enjoyably parboiled melodramas as well (The Bad and the Beautiful, Some Came Running). Here he is working for the first time with Daughter Liza, a stops-out entertainer, and such gifted, welcome actors as Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer. The material, adapted from a novel by Maurice Druon...