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...Music Man is overacted, overcute, overloud and overlong. In this movie, a parade is not just a parade; it resembles the massed phalanxes that troop past the Communist bigwigs in Red Square, with zest and joy beaming from every brainwashed face. A song is not just a song; thanks to a noisy collection of 211 instruments, among them trombones, double bell euphoniums, bassoons, and glockenspiels. Music Man is a hard-sell blast aimed at the eardrums of a new breed, presumably stereophonic man. Like many a cinemusical extravaganza, Music Man operates on the principle that an audience that...
...Above - The Mud Below returns, in grittily absorbing documentary fashion, to the Stone Age. Filmed in the cruel, uncharted jungle of interior New Guinea, it is a salute to man's unquenchable zest for adventure and a pictorial diary of age-old sociological curios, from headhunting to mock-birth rituals...
Kennedy has always had a way with the people-a presence that fits many moods, a style that swings with grace from high formality to almost prankish casualness, a quick charm, the patience to listen, a sure social touch, an interest in knowledge and a greed for facts, a zest for play matched by a passion for work. Today his personal popularity compares favorably with such popular heroes as Franklin Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower...
...innocent young girl (Jeanne Valerie) whom he plans to wed. The wife simply must get even. Would the husband mind ever so much if she asked him to seduce the intended bride? Not at all. Least a man can do to protect his wife's reputation. With zest, the husband consumes the maiden's virtue, and then goes on to dessert: a respectable young mother (Annette Vadim, the director's ex-wife...
Success in Measles. An ever more insistent backer of live-virus vaccines, Enders was a bit dismayed that the U.S. took up killed-virus polio vaccine with such zest. He experimented for a while attenuating poliovirus, sent a sample to the University of Cincinnati's Dr. Albert Sabin (who went on to make workable live-virus polio vaccines), then turned back to basic research. In 1954 another of his research fellows, Thomas Peebles, fulfilled Enders' longstanding dream of growing measles virus (obtained from a prep school student named David Edmonston) in tissue culture. This time, aiming...