Word: aficionados
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with medical-supply stores to rent iron lungs, and last July he turned Sears, Roebuck & Co. into an Omar the Tentmaker to provide $1,800,000 worth of "Ted Williams Campers" for 100,000 Jordanians displaced by the Arab-Israeli war. Tripp is an avid outdoorsman and thus an aficionado of tent living by avocation...
...number of dishes (nine) that the typical family breaks in the course of a year. Sports fans are longtime lovers of the well-tempered statistic. To know that Roger Maris replaced Babe Ruth as the home-run king through a fluke in total games played, is to be an aficionado instead of an amateur. For the average American, to be told that a lofting astronaut has threaded a celestial needle of time and place and reached orbit is to be faced with the incomprehensible. But to know that he is traveling at 17,500 m.p.h. is a measure that means...
Miguelin, as any aficionado knows, is a gimmicky bullfighter. His moves in the ring all attempt to place the bull in a situation where Miguelin can execute one of his two favorite tricks, that of patting the bull on the head and that of executing passes at close range while seated on the ring barrier. This kind of stereotyped strategy may please a sensation-seeking crowd, but it is not the art that bullfighting can be. The old-style matador, by contrast, constantly innovated to suit the particular bull he was fighting...
...ritual hollow and which allows such men as Miguelia into the bullring only to meet their tragic end. The candor and the earnestness which the director brings to the film perfectly counter-points his basic message. The elemental power which he achieves will very likely make you an aficionado of Francesco Rosi, if not of bullfighting itself...
...STANDARD SONNY ROLLINS (RCA Victor). These are virtuoso saxophone interpretations of supple old standards like I'll Be Seeing You, Love Letters, Trav'lin' Light. The unique phrasing that is Sonny's signature can catch even the aficionado up short, and the tone of the record is witty and ingenious. For contrast, there are a few calmly contemplative moments, notably Night...