Word: warmness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...compensates for their egregious violation of the rule that he who can't sing, shouldn't. Mr. Douglas at least does a good gruff job on what emerges as a thoroughly nasty character, but Miss Booth, in what should be a congenial role, seems almost uncomfortable; her famous infectious warm-heartedness is unaccountably missing, as well as her knack for pleasant semi-singing. Jack MacGrowran, as the Captain's fairweather sycophant, Joxer Daly, makes a pleasant if repetitive performance out of his slight build, weasly face, and nimble-stepping cringe. The other roles are taken mostly by singers and dancers...
...time or another all three of them were in the same line of work; outsiders might easily picture ex-Dictator Juan Peron, 63, and ex-Dictator Fulgencio Batista, 58, gathered around Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo's warm swimming pool in the Dominican Republic, reminiscing about the good old days. Instead, there was trouble in Trujillo's paradise. Peron was too scornful to speak to Batista; Batista was too scared to talk to Peron; aging (67) Dictator Trujillo obviously wished that both of them would go away. Reason: Cuba's bearded rebel leader, Fidel Castro, who toppled Batista...
...Adair; $6), Selden Rodman writes that "if there was any doubt in my mind that Orozco was the great artist of our age, it has vanished." But Rodman quotes a number of the master's countrymen to prove that the winds of fame blow cold as well as warm. Sample opinions: ¶The late Painter Diego Rivera: "Orozco was the only great artist of the counterrevolution ... He felt no compassion, made no affirmation. Because society disapproved of Hitler, he was for him." ¶ Painter David Siqueiros: "If ten people were in a room and argued for something -anything-Orozco...
...upper lip never stiffer than in the glare of BBC-TV lights, mourned the backfire of some backstab aimed in his memoirs (TIME, Nov. 24) at Dwight Eisenhower: "I sent him a copy of my book. The result was silence. I sent him a Christmas card with a very warm greeting, much warmer than to anyone else. Again there was only silence. I am awfully sad if I have lost the friendship of that great and good...
...with three couples trying to find apartments in Moscow's Cheryomushki district, where huge apartment buildings are being erected to relieve the housing shortage. Included in the cast are a construction worker, a museum guide, an old man who stubbornly refuses to leave his apartment in "Warm Alley" for the new development, and a married couple named Sasha and Masha, who are forced to kiss goodnight each evening and retire to their separate dwellings. Eventually all the characters get apartments in a triumph over the bureaucratic housing director and his scheming wife...