Word: bitingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brass Bite. Prawy began by putting Sam and Bella Spewack's slangy, sprightly spoof of Shakespeare and show business into sprightly, slangy German. Then, to give the Cole Porter score bite, he put an edge on the staid Volksoper orchestra in the form of a dozen Viennese axmen, most of whom cut up in brass. To keep the musicians jumping, he imported Conductor Julius Rudel of Manhattan's City Opera Co. He also imported his key principals from the U.S.: handsome Brenda Lewis of the Metropolitan Opera (Kate), and two relative unknowns, both Negroes, Olive Moorefield (Bianca...
...tour, Kubitschek stressed that his administration will welcome foreign investment. For the power and transportation sectors of the program, the administration will also need development loans from the U.S. Government. Urgently needed is U.S. aid in refunding Brazil's existing foreign debts so as to lessen the yearly bite. Just at inauguration time, the U.S. Export-Import Bank announced equipment loans totaling $55 million to Brazilian government-run enterprises ; obvious in the timing was Washington's intent to show its good will toward the new administration...
Finally, the accounting tribunal of the French bureaucracy began looking around for an out. In quick succession the tower was turned down by the state railroads, post office and TV station. When private capital also refused to bite last week, the only remaining buyer in sight seemed to be the department of the Somme. But the Somme's Conseil Général has already put itself on record as waiting "until the government offers us the tower for a symbolic payment of one franc...
...five saxes play with savage bite or else hum in their eerie, split harmonies behind a pagan trumpet solo; the three trombones clip off their own high-swinging ensemble passages; and the four trumpets blaze away with such ferocity that the effect becomes strangely airy and bodiless. But the chief reason for all the internal excitement is the Duke's new drummer, Sam Woodyard. He sits, lean and still, behind his battery, neatly punctuating every phrase, coming as close as any man could to playing a tune on his four side drums and three cymbals (he actually squeezes pitch...
Author Wallop starts with the old yet not indefensible notion that monogamy is the ideal rather than the natural state of man. But he might have given his story the bite of reality if he had teethed on anything but slick paper...