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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...this then what destroyed Elvis? We suspect so, but all we are certain of is that nowhere do we see the dynamic performer we have been led to suspect. Elvis wears a tight, one piece jumpsuit with an almost Elizabethan collar. It is close to self-parody, except that the costume has no fly, no seam at the croch, and it is too white, too clean and spotless. Not an extension of Elvis personality, it's like a piece of plastic that has been pressed onto his body, like cellophane melted over and onto a couple of thighs of chicken...
Like most rural areas, Long Island's Suffolk County has no major sewer system and, except in the largest towns, cannot afford to build one in the near future. Because Suffolk's 1,200,000 residents depend on backyard cesspools and septic tanks, household wastes that do not break down in natureespecially detergentseventually seep into the underground water supply. As a result, more and more drinking water flows out of the tap with a smelly foam that tastes awful and perhaps affects human health...
When it is polished to a sheen, the written material goes to the puppeteers and the live actors, who customarily work on separate daysexcept for Oscar and Big Bird, who mix readily with humans. Five tape machines are used to record and edit the showand to mix in the animation that was done earlier in Hollywood. About two weeks later, the show is aired, bloopers and all. Indeed, Producer Jon Stone is rather proud of the bloopers. When a kid on the show asked Folk Singer Leon Bibb in mid-chant, "How come you're sweatin...
Wonderama (Syndicated) is a 13-year-old, three-hour-long, Every Bloody Sunday party, encouraging kids to every capital sin except lust. An affable man offscreen, Host Bob McAllister manically encourages kids to spray each other with whipped cream, or to play musical pieslast one to stop at a cutout target gets a faceful. Everyone in the 120-child audience receives at least half a dozen giftsand a chance to wave at the folks back home. During the six-hour taping, the kids are given soda and ice cream (sandwiches were once dispensed, but too many kids threw...
Lacking the audacity to represent a naive childlike purity of faith, and incapable of the sophisticated myth-mocking irony of an Anouilh or a Giraudoux, Peter Stone rests his book, derived from Clifford Odets' The Flowering Peach, on the pitiably thin humor of anachronism. Except for one beguiling ballad, I Do Not Know a Day I Did Not Love You, Richard Rodgers' score is almost barren of melodic appeal, and Martin Charnin's lyrics could have been ticked off by a metronome...