Word: best
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...keep on getting one cold spell after another for a long time," warned Miami's U.S. Weatherman Leonard Pardue. "The cold air is piled up a mile high in Canada, and it can keep right on coming down here. The best we can hope for for a while is a couple of sunny days at a time...
...Colonel Bogey March in a score long on pomp, short on circumstance. RCA Victor's Bonjour Tristesse, by French Composer Georges Auric-member of the sometime modernist group known as The Six*-offers the listener a deft American Express tour of the French psyche, is at its best when it cuts loose with some lowdown jazz...
...even the best screen scores-laden with what the industry calls "the old gutseroo"-suffer from the terrible facelessness that is the bane of most movie music. "We can write symphonic music," a Hollywood composer once boasted, "almost as fast as an orchestra can play it." More often, the scores sound as though the orchestra had started wandering from the mark before the composer finished...
...dialects by Disk Jockey (and onetime philosophy teacher) Paul Winter, take some savage and often hilarious swipes at diverse targets-among them Schopenhauer, Orval Faubus and the Organization Man ("I am a team man. . . I get my steam, man, from that doll Normie Vincent Peale"). Among Winter's best: a "film clip" from a Brief Encounter-styled British movie entitled The Heart Is a Desperate Delicatessen; a monologue in which Producer "Boris Ishtar" rages at his star, "Rock Quarry," for failing to hit the big scandal magazines with the "slight perversions" suburbia currently demands ("I am spitting my Miltown...
Shorn Rump & Hock. At the climax of the ritual, a livestock farmer in a dinner jacket squatted before six dogs already judged best of their groups and poked, prodded and peered with fervor while the animals danced through their paces. Said Judge William W. Brainard Jr., the Jersey farmer who made the final choice of the best dog: "Believe it or not," said Brainard, "it was a very close decision." After communing with himself he bestowed the blue ribbon on Ch. (for Champion) Puttencove Promise, a pure white standard poodle...