Word: betwixt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...average 2.3% a year (v. 1.5% in the 50 states), and at this rate - with no marked rise in emigration - will nearly double in the next 30 years. Today the island occupies a unique but not entirely comfortable economic status. Not yet developed, yet no longer underdeveloped, it stands betwixt and between, a demi-developed society...
...with the dimpled look of a heavyweight cherub, Fischer-Dieskau is today Germany's most celebrated musical export. He is booked three years in advance, shuttles between continents like a suburban commuter to meet his breakneck schedule, averages an income of $225,000 a year. Betwixt and between, he turns out records like flapjacks. With 166 LPs to his credit, he is far and away the most recorded classical singer ever. While enthusiastic about the wealth of opera roles he has yet to try, Fischer-Dieskau is less optimistic about the future of the lieder. "There is no question...
...itself," he says, "that's a cozy act." Or, he confronts the viewer with Palace in Babylon, a cardboard mock-up of D. W. Griffith's 1916 film epic, Intolerance. As in a spectacular dollhouse, chariots, dancers, spear bearers, and potentates in braided beards are framed betwixt potbellied columns. Atop them trumpet curly-trunked elephants, seated like corpulent Hollywood-style brokers at a banquet. Playful, punning, and still a sophisticated commentary, it is, like most of Red Grooms's art, a toy for adults...
...Betwixt and between, Berger-Crabb is a spellbinding storyteller with a fine feel for frontier manners and morals and for fascinating Indian lore. And why didn't the Sioux scalp Custer? Jack Crabb knows (because he was there): Custer was getting bald...
...Cellar. Trumpeter Wingy Manone got the audience of 1,800 tapping their feet with a blistering Tailgate Ramble. Trumpeter Billy Butterfield chimed in with a sweet and solid delivery of Singing the Blues. Crosby led ten enlistees through a lively, give-and-go session of Royal Garden Blues. But betwixt and between, le jazz hot tended to run lukewarm, and when it was over at 3:20 a.m., the Great Moment had never quite happened. M.C.s Crosby and Mercer did their best to keep the music flowing as freely as the whisky backstage, but the profusion of talent was largely...