Word: accordion
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...fair, Giscard tried, at least at first. In 1974 he played the accordion in public, dressed in a V-neck sweater, rode the Paris Metro-a formidable effort at creating a sense of California-style informality. He walked instead of riding in state down the Champs-Elysées for his inauguration On one occasion he invited a group of Paris garbage men to the Elysée Palace for breakfast. Such superficial tokens of change may have pleased the young but they were too much for tradition-minded Frenchmen who greeted the new style with ridicule. Explains a Western...
...Lord Gypsey (Jose Wilker), a tacky magician impresario. With him is his lover Salome (Betty Farish), "the Rhamba Queen," a tawdry sexpot who moonlights as a hooker, and a Black deaf-mute muscleman named Swallow. When this troupe rolls into Pirhanhas they become the way out for an idealistic, accordion-playing farmboy. Cico (Fabio Junior), who fears an existence rooted in the sleepy backlands and joins the outfit with his pregnant young wife. The old pros and the innocents rattle together from one poor village to the next hawking the worldly pleasures of vaudeville to a public more likely...
...band turned out to be the most fun I've ever had fully clothed and in public. Four straight hours the band cooked insistently, with Chenier himself -- recently out of the hospital from serious medical business -- in charge for the latter three. Chenier proclaimed himself "King of the Accordion," signified by a besequinned red velvet crown and proved by playing the rhythm-and-blues devil out of his instrument. He was flanked by a young white guitarist, who played astoundingly well in a Freddie King-inspired style, plus a more stoic black guitarist, two saxophonists, a vigorous drummer, a bass...
Other department stores may try to win back recession-scarred consumers with glamorized décor, personalized service and accordion-like credit arrangements. But K mart Corp, knows that the way to the shopper's heart is still through the pocketbook. Most of the 1,750 stores around the country that show off the company's big red K are riding out the recession relatively well, and the discount chain may displace Sears, Roebuck and Co. as the U.S.'s leading retailer...
...sings. She dances. She plays the piano, plunks the guitar, pumps the accordion. She recently won raves for two movies, Siberiada and Five Evenings. Now Actress Lyudmila Gurchenko, 44, is an author acclaimed for her autobiography, published in a literary monthly, about growing up in war-torn Kharkov. The muse moved her while she and film friends watched Peter Bogdanovich's Paper Moon. "They kept saying how marvelous the Tatum O'Neal character was. So I said, 'Listen, guys, I was the same type of child, only I grew up with German troops and hunger and death...