Word: pretender
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Play a Musical Game (Tom Glazer, William Keene, Sally Sweetland, Arthur Malvin; Columbia). This crew, especially the infectiously good-natured Tom Glazer, commands something no parent does-instant obedience. In this superior participation record, children are invited to put their fingers "in the air, in the air," pretend to lead orchestras, and "do a little square dance...
Songs and Fun with the Baby Sitters (Vanguard). This winning semipro quartet gives one the sensation of visiting with rather than listening to. Giving off an air of artless improvisation, they intertwine pretend games, traditional ballads and "activity songs." Low on actorish gloss, the Baby Sitters are as soft sell as a lullaby and just about perfect for the just-out-of-the-nursery...
...street, near Filene's, neon Christmas lights blink on and off, radios, record players, jukeboxes sound seasonal music--from "Santa Baby" and "The Yuletide Olde Lang Syne," to "White Christmas" to "Silent Night." Nearby, on the Common, some elm trees pretend they are pine. They have been used to offset a large, carousel-like decoration which projects a variety of colors each night...
...position. "I've developed a little play of my own," he says. "It's a kind of fake shot-we call them 'deeks' for decoys. Sometimes the goalie gives you an opening deliberately and then breaks your heart by blocking the shot. I pretend I'm taking the opening by flicking my stick over the top of the puck. The goalie moves, and then I either flick it between his legs or into the other side...
...early Shirley Temple manner is better than ever. But despite Mrs. Miller, the film is not really good low humor. It is merely good-humored. Co-Star Yves Montand, the French music hall singer, is urbane and masculine, but he seems constrained by a part that requires him to pretend he is not an expert song-and-dance man. He plays a billionaire who, to be near Actress Monroe, decides to take the part of himself in a satirical off-Broadway revue and keeps his identity secret so that Marilyn may love him for his pilgrim soul, rather than...