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...songs not only cloy, they choke, which must make them as much of a challenge to sing as to hear. In The Slipper and the Rose, the melodies slosh around lyrics that have largely to do with the frustrations of love and royalty. The Prince (Richard Chamberlain) bellyaches tunefully about the difficulty of finding a loved one from amongst the array of regal dogs put forward by his father the King (Michael Hordern). These complaints absorb rather more time than they should, and result, directly or indirectly, in several dance numbers of singular clumsiness. The dancers-presumably professionals-look like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Glass Sliver | 1/17/1977 | See Source »

Pour the sack and pop the bubbly Slosh the Chivas and slosh it doubly. On Dancer, on Prancer, on Donner, on Blitzen...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: The New Gotha Programme | 12/11/1975 | See Source »

...ROMAGNOLIS' TABLE. PBS, Sundays 7:00 p.m. E.D.T. For the viewer-cook inclined to split piselli, it must be said that Pa and Ma (Italian-born Franco and Irish-English Margaret) Romagnoli are a bit offhand. He says add a cup of vinegar, but what he does is slosh a slug of it into a wineglass, eye it with a shrug, and toss it in. A few Romagnoli dishes - hot Swiss chard with olive oil, spareribs and sausages mired in thick sauce - are the sort of thing only an Italian mama could love. But these are piffling objections. This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Viewpoints | 4/7/1975 | See Source »

...watch my teams surrender a four-run lead in the ninth inning then lose in the tenth. Afterwards, I washed down the defeat with rancid coffee, several perusals of the damp and dismal scorecard, and the lofty notion that I had, after all, witnessed a game that would slosh itself into history--perhaps as the famous Rain Game...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: Home of the Brave, Play Ball! | 10/17/1974 | See Source »

...dollar. It would be gradually replaced by Special Drawing Rights ("paper gold") as the major currency that nations use to settle debts among themselves. This would enable the International Monetary Fund, which issues SDRs, to use them to buy up the billions of loose dollars that now slosh disruptively from country to country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MONEY: The Winners and Losers from Devaluation | 2/26/1973 | See Source »

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