Word: fervor
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...beak of a toucan, is back in the musical that made her a household bird. She may have omitted an a from her name, but Barbra leaves nothing out of Funny Girl. Gags, production numbers, vaudeville mugging and tearstained love scenes receive the same manic stress and fervor. As in the Broadway show, when the jokes are good, Barbra displays the best timing East of Mae West. When Jule Styne's numbers are deserving-People, Don't Rain On My Parade-she warms them with meticulous emotional phrasing until they glow like a marquee...
...this impression of the people is gained can't be easily explaned. Occasional admissions of discontent him at a more deep-seated malaise, but the most obvious manifestation of this search for escape is the fervor with which the Israelis desire peace. Their understandable eagerness to be free from fear is always accompanied by statements like "then we will not have to spend all our time preparing...
...seemed that most of the kids hadn't really wanted the evening to end this way; that next night the leaders were going to have to find some new followers because a lot of this batch of troops had had enough. There was so little real emotion and revolutionary fervor behind...
...dozen years ago, Critic John Mason Brown defined television as chewing gum for the eyes. Now the record industry has come up with bubble gum for the ears. Set to a chink-a-chink beat, bleated out with pep-rally fervor, it goes like this...
Herein lies the Startford production's main shortcoming. Kathleen Dabney is attractive enough in her blue toga streaked with green, but she just doesn't give evidence of meriting her position as a leader of the Christian prisoners. Her Lavinia lacks fervor and intensity; and some of her lines don't ring true...