Word: cabaret
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...town or goes out on the town pays the taxes, which generally vary from 5% to 10%. Among the taxed items: household appliances, cameras, sporting goods, autos and auto parts, stock transfers, motor fuel and lubricants, telephone bills, office machines, electric light bulbs, mechanical pencils and ballpoint pens, cabaret tabs, theater and sports admissions. As a means of regulation, as much as a source of revenue, heavy taxes are also slapped on gambling, pinball machines, tobacco and alcohol: $10.50 per gallon of liquor, $9 per barrel of beer, 8? per pack of cigarettes...
...viewing nature, nature's handmaid, art, makes mighty things from small beginning grow," wrote Dryden. In the Manhattan cabaret called Second City, Satirist Severn Darden, posing as a mad Germanic art professor, explains in effect what the poet meant...
Artificial grass carpeting and cabaret tables ringed the dance floor. To the distress of Secret Service men, tourists strolling along Pennsylvania Avenue had what amounted to ringside seats. The evergreens set out as a screen at the last minute were too skimpy to block the view. As it turned out, it was quite a show...
...thin little man, balding, in a dark blue suit and red tie, has not the figure of a sensational singing star. But when that little man has the face and voice of Charles Aznavour singing sweet and sad French cabaret songs, the figure becomes an asset. Last Sunday night Aznavour's soulful visage stampeded the girls who had come from French Canada and New England to hear him; one Smithie walked away dazed with ecstasy: "I toucher his face, I touched his face...
...Island nightclub called the Cork 'n Bib. He was-cursed with a sleepy drummer, an eccentric pianist, and the abiding worry that he may have to speak to Manhattan from the suburbs for some time to come: New York City is notoriously loath to permit ex-addicts the "cabaret card" they need to perform in its nightclubs. But the welcome Chet won was as enthusiastic as it was deserved. He looked pained when he played and downright wounded when he sang, but his music had a bright, aggressive gusto to it that made better jazz than the music...