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...love has lost its zest...
...title role, a Preston who had never danced or sung during 20 years of show business becomes, at a bound, a brilliant song-and-dance man. His triumph, to be sure, stems from something less than singing, and seldom exactly dancing; it grows from a leg-and-larynx zest, a mating of sales-talk incantation and engaging panhandle stride. And something of this solo zip is mass-produced in the festive small-town spin of Onna White's dances. Prettily singing the show's over-pretty romantic tunes, Barbara Cook provides a contrastingly quiet charm. The Music...
...with Guest Stars Ann Sothern and Rudy Vallee through 75 minutes of bumbling sight gags and strangulated cliches, e.g., a loveless Lucy's groan, "They weren't kidding when they said this ship was on its maiden voyage." Fortunately, saucer-eyed Lucille took her lumps with undiminished zest and even worked her putty face through one funny bit in which she and Desi, meeting for the first time in a Havana night club, swapped pitter-pats in a love duet on the bongo drums. The messages between them grew more frantic, and after beating out an abandoned rhythmic...
Robert Seager finds in them "a tremendous amount of self-satisfaction with the world as it is. It kind of floors me that the zest has gone out of American intellectual life because the economy has achieved what the critics have always wanted it to achieve." Or, as one M.I.T. senior puts it: "We think we're getting a pretty good deal. The world needs us; we're in demand. Hell, I'll be making $450 a month as soon as I graduate...
Died. Abe Lyman, 59, onetime bandleader at Hollywood's famed Cocoanut Grove, organizer of the Californians, a group known for zip and zest in the '20s, waltz and schmaltz in the '30s; of cancer; in Beverly Hills, Calif...