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...Hours with Thelonious Monk (Riverside) is time exceptionally well spent with the ranking genius of jazz. On recordings made during his 1961 European tour, Monk runs through the core of his repertory (18 tracks on two LPs), but his message eludes his three breathless sidemen...
...figured he had had his cake (and eaten it too). So when he showed up next morning for the weekly White House breakfast with Democratic legislative leaders, he was unbraced for anything festive. Then President Kennedy had a surprise cake brought in, and the Texas birthday boy was downright breathless. It took him four mighty puffs to dispatch the cake's five candles. Tch-tched Florida Senator George Smathers: "Shameful for an ex-Senator...
...Bernard Kops has been a poor Jewish evacuee from the blitzed East End of London, a waiter, an actor in terrible road companies, a book peddler, a songwriter, a bum in London and Paris and tout for a brothel in Tangier. He has told all in a sort of breathless antistyle that can be the most irritating of all styles. Every frightful thing that happened to him (and the rare pleasant event) is told in exactly the same tone of voice as if his book were being read by a court attendant. Sample day from Bernard Kops...
...cameras. "I'm not criticizing anyone else who did it. But going nude just isn't up my alley." The whole problem was that stories were spreading that Jean had stripped to the waist for a love scene with Warren Beatty in the upcoming Lilith. In her Breathless in-bed scene with Jean-Paul Belmondo, in case anyone wondered, she wore "slacks and a top" under the covers. She was just as dressed for Warren. Besides, she said, "I'm worried about what my parents in Iowa will think...
Caravans shows more research than imagination. Michener studs his skimpy narrative with Afghan legends and interminably breathless descriptions of the sere and bleak Afghan landscape. All he succeeds in doing is making Afghanistan seem like Hawaii West...