Word: furbish
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...ideal solution is to make a new version of one of the better shows (such as La Belle Helene): in Agate's words, "to furbish up the old sparkle and avoid substituting a new one, to stick to the operette and to keep the thing French." The solution arrived at for "Albert Marre's production," as the current venture is billed, is to tinker and tamper and mess and fuss and fiddle and diddle and hope for the best. The result not surprisingly, is a galimafree, or, as we say in America, a hash...