Word: butterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stage, a new acid-rock group called "The Butter" is playing a new acid-rock number. It is a most unbutterlike performance, with a wailing lead singer who rips at your eardrums and a bass you can hear through your elbows on the table. The blonde is dancing quietly in the backstil smoking, still staring...
...what Latin Americans really need, as proved by the recent Communist guerrilla uprising in Bolivia and the death there of Guerrilla Tactician Che Guevara, are the basic bread-and-butter weapons of a fighting man: rifles, mortars, machine-guns, helicopters and spotter planes. Unfortunately, these are not the stuff that flashy parades are made...
Dartmouth's 14-0 lead, in large measure, was thanks to Harvard's butter-fingers. The Crimson dropped the ball three times in the half, with one fumble costing it a chance for a score, and with another giving Blackman's legions an easy shot at six points...
...Congressmen, the Ways and Means chairman argues that the President cannot afford to fight on two fronts, simultaneously battling the Viet Cong and domestic poverty, without making sacrifices. Johnson, echoed ranking Republican Committeeman John W. Byrnes, must tell the people: "We can't afford the gravy and the butter-we've got to get down to the guns and the necessities." Before he will change his mind, Mills insists that the President must slash billions from housekeeping bills and defer new projects, as the U.S. has always done in wartime...
...twelve-tone Composer Elisabeth Lutyens, but soon found that discipline "stiff and disagreeable." Now his manner is basically tonal, which, he feels, actually affords the composer a wider horizon of dissonance. In another Williamson work produced at Newport, a nonet for five players and four dancers, long sequences of butter-would-melt tunefulness suddenly gave way to a perky hell-for-leather style reminiscent of Stravinsky's acidulous neoclassicism...