Word: yawned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kettleson, too, did a fine job with the music, though I wish his voice had been stronger. Weber sung less brilliantly, but played with more convincing gusto. Randolph Lindel (Sveglioto) and Martin Wishnatsky (Giovinetto) performed their sneeze-yawn duet with suitable enthusiasm...
...Wide Yawn. With all its natural attractions, New Zealand hopes to attract more foreign tourists. Only 113,000 visited New Zealand last year (15,000 of them Americans), and most of them have to fly prop planes from Australia or Fiji to get there. So far, there has been little reason to come: most New Zealand hotels are dilapidated, service is poor, almost all bars close at 6 p.m. daily, there is practically no night life and a New Zealand Sunday is one wide yawn. The government is determined to improve matters, hopes that it can raise tourist income from...
...handicappers take heart! Don't yawn with ennui as drive after drive soars 275 yds. down the middle of the fairway. Don't sigh as your approaches bite dead in the center of the green, and your putts plunk gently into the cup. Live a little. "Amaze your friends. Open a whole new golfing world," advises Paul Hahn in a new book, Trouble Shots (McKay...
...book gets no lift from Mark Sandrich Jr.'s music-to-yawn-by, and Director-Choreographer Michael Kidd unleashes his dancers only once for some sword and gun play. No one could coax a poor performance out of Robert Preston, but his hard-sell charm, snap and gusto create the curious impression of a history-book minstrel man in whiteface. Still, he could save the show if there was one to save...
...last half of the film the illusion of reality slowly collapses into a steaming mess of socio-political platitudes ("In a nuclear war, everybody loses"). If Dr. Strangelove, as some think, made a serious subject silly, Fail Safe too often makes a serious subject soggy. The customers begin to yawn and then to smile. Indeed, in the final scene, when the U.S. President drops an H-bomb on New York City in preposterous apology for the H-bomb dropped on Moscow, they may even laugh out loud...