Word: bebopped
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...store for bungalow paint. Merilee plowed the aisles, selecting her barn reds to match her tangerines, and left Sam and the keeds to pay. When they caught up. Merilee and Stefan were across the street in front of the garden store, standing stranded in an island of bebop potted trees and exotic flora they had selected, waiting for Sam to arrive with the cash...
...know it at first, they would be just as itchily and angrily at home nearly anywhere else as they are in dreary old Leipzig. Fries' hero, Arlecq, escapes to West Berlin in search of Oobliadooh, a storied dreamland delineated in song by Dizzy Gillespie, a prince of bebop. Sickened by the banalities of Communist bureaucracy, Arlecq looks forward to the delights of the West (or "the WEST," as he put it). When he finally does reach Oobliadooh, he finds things just as unsatisfactory as they were back home. "I must insist on a little more enthusiasm," his friend...
...term derives from the pre-World War II jitterbug adjective "hep": to be "with it"; hep became "hip" (in noun form, "hipster") during the bebop and beatnik era of the 1950s, then fell into disuse, to be revived with the onslaught of psychedelia. *A 14th century English troubadourian vision, the Land of Cockaigne was inhabited by precooked "larks well-trained and very couth who cometh down to man his mouth." The larks were eaten by hooded monks, who prayed through psychedelic church windows that "turn themselves to crystal bright." A new U.S. postage stamp of Thoreau, designed by Painter Leonard...
With his reputation burgeoning, Handy has now become the subject of the jazz aficionados' favorite diversion: endless treatises delving into his musical roots. The pedants find meaningful traces of Bartok and Shostakovich, of rhythm and blues and bebop, of African rhythms and Indian ragas, of Saxophonist Benny Carter (in the upper register) and of Clarinetist George Baquet (in the trills). John Handy hears differently. "More and more," says he, "I sound like John Handy...
...partial ownership of Al Capone and cronies. "I couldn't afford to have stars for the band," says Hines, "so I had to make them." He nurtured dozens of first-rate musicians; Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker used the band as a laboratory for the newly emerging bebop. In 1940, stepping high in snakeskin shoes, a diamond tiepin and purple tie, Hines hit the road-just in time to witness the demise of the big-band era. The years thereafter were largely one continuous round of playing with various combos. He dyed his greying temples 'black, staged lavish...