Word: claptrap
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What raises Kismot above the standard of an old Maria Montez movie are the engaging performances of a cast which refuses to take any of the show's claptrap seriously. Well-rehearsed after a WEst Coast run of two months, the company gambols through Kismot with good-natured case. Even the gauze-pantalooned houris in the chorus seem pleasantly aware of how silly they look and make the bad moments of the show so hilariously poor that you can't complain. On the other hand, thanks primarily to Alfred Drake, Kismet's good moments are very enjoyable indeed. In Otis...
What raises Kismet above the standard of an old Maria Montez movie are the engaging performances of a cast which refuses to take any of the show's claptrap seriously. Well-rehearsed after a West Coast run of two months, the company gambols through Kismet with good-natured case. Even the gauze-pantalooned houris in the chorus seem pleasantly aware of how silly they look and make the bad moments of the show so hilariously poor that you can't complain. On the other hand, thanks primarily to Alfred Drake, Kismet's good moments are very enjoyable indeed. In Otis...
...listeners still call in every night to ask the name of the program's haunting theme song (Greensleeves, a 16th century English air). Listeners have sent in valentines, poems, flowers and art work to show their appreciation. Congressman Albert Morano of Connecticut saluted "the marked contrast to the claptrap coming from other stations." Composer Richard Rodgers wrote a grateful letter on behalf of his ill wife; Cartoonist Milton (Steve Canyon) Caniff said: "Like many another night worker, I am your ardent supporter." A group...
...psychoanalyst who persuades a bird-brained wife that there is something unhealthy about her happy marriage and faithful husband. The worst thing about the play isn't that it never comes within hailing distance of satire, but that it is altogether stupefying as farce. And to the claptrap of Broadway, Movie Actors Ann Sothern and Robert Cummings add all the coyness of Hollywood...
...people continue to live in stuffy homes," says Louis Wijsenbeek, director of The Hague's Municipal Museum, "it is hard to see how a man of use to us or to the world can develop." Last week, in an exhibition called Kunst en Kitsch (Art and Claptrap), Director Wijsenbeek gave the public some pointers on what a well-appointed house should be. His Kunst living rooms had a few simple pieces of light-colored modern furniture, prints by Braque, Matisse and Leger. Kitsch rooms had overdecorated wood buffets, shrieking landscapes on the walls, artificial flowers on the table...