Word: bam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this biography of perhaps the randiest American hero since Benjamin Franklin. J.F.K.'s model was, of course, his father, Joseph P., financier, politico and womanizer who, foreshadowing his second son's White House trysts, brought his mistress home. An old chum reports that Jack's favorite phrase was "Slam, bam, thank you, ma'am." Inga Arvad, the Danish-born journalist who was Kennedy's lover during the early 1940s, remembers "a boy, not a man, intent upon ejaculation and not a woman's pleasure." Lem Billings, Kennedy's oldest friend, is more sympathetic. "I think he wanted to believe...
...lives!" stuff. And no "once and future king" either. They may be true, but they sound a little stiff somehow, something his music never was. So -- taking a cue from the music itself -- let's just salute the memory of Nat King Cole with one bright "flash!," a loud "bam!" and a reverent but resounding "alakazam...
...most important (flash! bam!), the intrepid Mosaic Records has just released The Complete Capitol Recordings of The Nat King Cole Trio: 18 CDs or 27 LPs, with a total of 349 cuts and about 17 hours of music. Great American music comes in lots of styles, but whatever the sound, it doesn't get much greater than this. Any one of the tunes in this collection can swing you off on a cashmere cloud...
...news of the day was not, however, the smash, bang, bam Crimson victory. The new news is that Sophomore Vanya Desai, seeded at number one early last year until she got ill with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, returned to play Coach Stuart le Gassick said. "But and won her first collegiate match...
...they moved upstairs, the demonstratorscreated a spectacle, flaying their bodies on thesteps and escalator of the station. Some shouted"Bam, bam!" as others passed out leaflets toonlookers...