Word: argos
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
BENNY GOLSON: FREE (Argo). Golson is a tenor saxophonist of spotless musicality, with a superb rhythm section: Tommy Flanagan, piano; Ron Carter, bass; and Art Taylor, drums...
...drain plug in his heel." This monster is genuine and belongs to the myth of the Argonauts. In his well-known The Greek Myths, Robert Graves writes: "The Argonauts reached Crete, where they were prevented from landing by Talos the bronze sentinel, a creation of Hephaestus, who pelted the Argo with rocks, as was his custom. Medea called sweetly to this monster . . . and, while he slept, she removed the bronze nail which stoppered the single vein running from his neck to his ankles. Out rushed the divine ichor, a colorless liquid serving him for blood, and he died...
...just folks, watch it so much that they must surely have to keep a six-pack of nectar and a frozen ambrosia dinner close at hand. But in stead of astronauts they see Argonauts -a bearded body builder named Jason (Todd Armstrong) and his adventure-prone shipmates aboard the Argo...
...Argonauts get into all sorts of telegenic scrapes. In one episode, the Argo is sailing through a maritime falling-rock zone, with boulders crashing into the sea from viselike cliffs. Hera, watching the show live, sends Triton from the bottom of the sea to hold the rocks apart so the Argo can sail past. Jason sails on to get the Golden Fleece. He needs this gelt pelt in order to claim the throne of Thessaly, but it is watched over by the Hydra, as disgusting a monster as ever writhed and roared on the screen. Hydra has more heads than...
TURNTABLE WAR revives as Columbia Records began issuing three-minute pop "singles" (in recent years available only on 45 r.p.m.'s) in 33⅓speed. Capitol, ABC Paramount, Argo and London record firms will soon follow because of declining pop-singles sales. Lone holdout in drive to make 33s standard for industry: RCA Victor, which pioneered...