Word: verbalizations
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...INTERVIEW WITH a mime? Sounds contradictory. But in fact David Fechtor is one of the more verbal people I've met around here...
...though, it has become obvious that the freeze will not only prevent much new building, but will stop many slum-rebuilding projects in midcourse, halting site-clearance work or even actual construction already in progress. Housing officials in some cities move such projects along on the basis of verbal commitments from federal officials. They sign a formal subsidy contract only when the builders are about to begin putting up steel and pouring concrete, or have already begun...
...child's Fairy Tale--too much of the humor of the thing is of a mildly sick adult variety, the degenerate offshoot of upper-middle class Broadway comedy, with its pallid neuroses that all the ashamed afflicted can laugh at. Segal also makes a real effort at verbal acrobatics, and falls flat. "Magic beans, the stuff dreams are made of! And also magic vegetable stew," can't qualify as one of the better bits of verbal word play of the late 20th century...
...difficult to keep one's composure in the face of such a verbal onslaught, but a woman of her background should hear beyond his vulgar words. An incomplete little man, he indicted himself beyond redemption, for what Sinatra says about Cheshire says more about Sinatra than it does about Cheshire...
Floyd's score isn't too individual. The ranch hands' trio breaks up verbal rhythms rather in the manner of The Rake's Progress, and the music also includes several hints of jazz, which generally end up sounding like the dull parts of Porgy and Bess. Most of the score, though, is unabashedly dramatic, or at least would like to be. Lacking Puccini's capacity for soaring anguish, Floyd can't pull his listeners out of themselves by their own heartstrings. Once the poisonous mediocrity of his characters' lives becomes vivid, one begins to long for relief from...