Word: jivey
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...Margolies, who plays a sensitive mother as well as the crude, masculine game of dozens. Her experience as a stage actress, primarily at the Stage One Company, lies beneath her effortless virtuosity. Her Sally is highly feminine, but not stylized--a pig-tailed, funky adult who speaks low and jivey. Mason is a naturally-grinning blond whose well-practised mannerisms reek of reflex criminality: the archetypal detriment to Sally's hope for a clean life...
Unfortunately, as in his previous operas, Tippett's libretto falls short of his music. The harder he tries to be colloquial or hip, the more stilted he becomes ("What's bugging you, man?/ Cool and jivey once;/ Now, touchy and tight"). His three acts of roughly 30 minutes each are so compressed that they allow no development, leaving on the mind's eye only a flashing succession of emblems...
...crosspatch, for raising even a minor caveat about this engaging, low-key, low-budget movie, full of nice people, bouncy car chases, vroomy racing sequences. Scott is played with a sort of quizzical intelligence by Richard Pryor in a performance very different from his equally effective role as the jivey thief in Silver Streak. There is about Pryor, and the picture as a whole, both earnestness and the sense to throw it away; though if you stop to think, Scott's career-even if it was not precisely as set forth in the film-required even more courage than...
...thoughts to a chief in making an important decision: but knowledge still leaves an audience a good distance from feeling. One way Miss Primus drew her audience closer was to have them sing the antiphonal chant for her last piece, the conga; and others of her dances, like the jivey "high-life," include the audience by sheer force of exuberance...
...lyrics. His gags may not be immortal but usually get a laugh from someone who has just put his 459th consecutive nickel into a slot and is ready for anything. Ross also does a take-off on Baby, It's Cold Outside, turning himself into a jivey simulacrum of a Chicago mobster. In a rococo version of Ebbtide, the whole group does everything from bird calls to an imitation of the surf...