Word: accents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...here if you wasted time in sob stuff." Elected as a Laborite to Liverpool's city council at 30, she was rough, tough, uninhibited and unintimidated. "I wish I had a machine gun on the lot of you!" she yelled at the Tory councilmen in her broad Lancashire accent. "We have a Corporation ratcatcher, but he goes for the wrong sort." Once she took a two-foot megaphone into the chamber to help make herself heard. Another time she called a Tory opponent a "deliberate liar," and cheerfully accepted a police escort from the chamber rather than take...
...equal to the rigorous demands of Weill's music. Her cruelty and cynicism give added dimension to numbers like "The Ballad of Survival" and "The Ballad of Dependency." Bronia Sielewicz, as the prostitute Jenny, will make even the most sentimental viewer forgive her for replacing the familiar German accent of Lotte Lenya. "The Pirate Jenny" and "The Solomon Song" are two of the best examples of Weill and Brecht's art and Miss Sielewicz gives them at least their due. Sara-Jane Smith plays Polly Peachum with a fine veneer of innocence and propriety barely covering Polly's lusty nature...
...Disneyland. Explained Godfrey: "We're top-heavy with stars." Even his brighter Monday night Talent Scouts, with its constant turnover of fresh talent, has tumbled off the lists of top 20 shows. Godfrey's remedy: "a new show," possibly a bigger Talent Scouts, with the accent on eager new faces. "What's all the excitement about?" Godfrey grumped. "Both NBC and CBS once fired me the same way." Like their predecessor-in-exile. Singer Julius La Rosa (TIME, Nov. 2, 1953), Godfrey's ex-friends soon discovered that they had been hit with a golden...
Ballroom merengue music is played in two-four time, with a strong drum accent on the first beat of every bar. Dancers take a step on each beat, so that the dance looks somewhat like a less dignified version of the Spanish paso doble (bullfighters' march). Basic merengue figures are a graceful two-beat side walk and four-or eight-beat spot turns (see diagram). "It's easy," says Manhattan Dancing Teacher Josephine Butler. "You do a fox trot with one leg and a rumba with the other...
Painter Gerassi is a heavy-muscled, egg-bald man of 55 who talks with staccato forcefulness in a thick accent-English was the last of many languages he picked up. Raised in Spain, he first resolved to be a philosopher, went to Germany to study. "I wanted to find out the sense of life," he recalls. "I found out you don't find out anything but speculations...