Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to the New York papers' accounts of the meeting. Little was particularly unhappy about one pass-interference penalty, on which he questioned a call by the field judge, our own Dolph Samborski. Director of the local intramural program, "Sam" doubles in brass as an official on Saturdays...
...Actress Hagen can turn amusingly soulful or shrewish or primitive; what she fails to do is create a solid characterization. And the satire is the merest slapstick, the joke is never varied, the fun never sustained. In Any Language is a johnny-one-note scored for a very large brass band...
Dirty Snowdrops. Crowley insisted that in all his acts he was directed by "The Secret Chiefs," i.e., the top brass of the spirit world. These chummy spooks now informed him that "a New Epoch had begun for mankind and that Aleister Crowley had been chosen to initiate it." Crowley took orders from the Egyptian god Horus, with his wife (now known as Ouarda the Seer) acting as interpreter. The Book of the Law (the bible of the New Epoch) was then dictated...
...This dance has no symbolic meaning. It's just a dance." The single setting showed a moonlit temple courtyard crowded with men in colored turbans, sitting comfortably behind gilded consoles, beating on xylophone-like strips of metal with wooden hammers. In the rear hung three huge, deep-humming brass gongs. At the foot of the temple steps, two men sat and fluttered butterfly fingers against tubular drums. The music of a Balinese gamelan can clang steel-hard or chime gold-soft, Manhattanites discovered -and the rhythm was as exact and exciting as a drum solo by Gene Krupa...
...Crane-Simplex, which in 1915 cost $30,000 and was guaranteed for the life of its owner. Designed to look like a luxurious yacht, it sported brass funnels and a propeller in the rear to hold on two spare wire wheels. The wooden trim and running boards were teakwood. Yet for all its wonderful nautical absurdity, it could do 75 m.p.h. Unfortunately for the guarantee, the company folded a few years after it started...