...Ella still can do those rope-skipping tunes with her old sassy bounce, but she can also handle nuances of grown-up wit and humor — certainly one of the prime requisites with Lorenz Hart lyrics — by turns satirical, sardonic, sexy, sophisticated - and then, sweetly simple.In other words — in Mr. Hart's own words, to be precise — “Thou swell, thou witty, thou sweet, thou grand!” Thou said it.
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