Word: blossomer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...China-Viet Nam War wilted like a frostbitten blossom last week. China's 100,000 or so infantry and armored troops arrested their languid advance 15 to 20 miles inside the Viet Nam border, wheeled, and began a gradual, piecemeal withdrawal. Vietnamese artillery and front-line units of the 70,000-man-strong border defense force put on a show of hot pursuit but coolly refrained from any real, obstructive attack. Judging from the ferocity of each side's victory claims, it seemed safe to conclude that neither side had won-or lost...
...consonants and flattening the vowels so that whole lines go past as pure melody, as pure horn playing." Ray Charles can sing anything but opera: "The sound of his pinewoods voice tearing along over violins and a choir is one of the wonders of music." Cabaret Singer Blossom Dearie, a honey-blond with a "boxed and beribboned" manner, offers a tiny sound that "without a microphone, would not reach the second floor of a doll house. But it is a perfect voice . . . occasionally embellished by a tissue-paper vibrato...
...honest to slick up their style, they began to be as obsolete as a 78-r.p.m. single. Here and there, Balliett touches on the poignancy of their lives, as when Blossom Dearie says wistfully, "I'd sort of like to become the rage for a while." As American Singers makes clear, she never will be. But there are all kinds of celebrity, and Balliett's glowing tribute may prove more enduring than gold records and cabaret applause...
...accomplish the journey, Teng and his backers have embarked on what sometimes looks suspiciously like a capitalist road. The new doctrinal slogan might be formulated thus: "Let one hundred business deals blossom, let one hundred foreign investors contend." Although very few Chinese have acquired much individual freedom as part of the new enterprise, they are discarding, without ceremony, much of their old ideological baggage. Gone is the once sacred Maoist principle of national self-reliance and independence from outside resources. Chinese managers have heretically embraced such impure capitalist devices as meritocratic promotions and other special treatment for their best...
...time a girl is good enough to strut her stuff for five minutes at the line tryouts, her parents have quite a bit invested. Private twirling lessons can run as high as $25 an hour. A week at one of the dozen or more twirling camps that blossom in the heat of Texas summer is about $90. Stretchy costumes cost as much as $60. The batons themselves, chrome-plated steel from 16 in. to 30 in. long, are about $12.50. Twirler parents spend about $600 a year, and some begin pushing their daughters into contests before they are old enough...