Word: cabareting
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...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...
...soon as he was released, the police canceled his "cabaret card," a document required of all entertainers who appear in New York nightclubs...
Monk was her immediate fascination, and Monk, who only has eyes for Nellie, cheerfully took her on as another mother. She gave him rides, rooms to compose and play in and, in 1957, help in getting back the vital cabaret card. The baroness, along with Monk's gentle manager, a Queens high school teacher named Harry Colomby, collected medical evidence that Monk was not a junkie, along with character references by jazzmen and musical scholars. The cops gave in, and for the first time in years Monk began playing regularly in New York. The music he made at the Five...
...make a second grass-roots tour, this one to mountainous central Viet Nam. At a village of montagnard tribesmen, Khanh let his feet be ceremonially washed in rice wine and buffalo blood. At a bleak infantry fort guarding the Laotian frontier, Khanh trotted out three sparsely clad Saigon cabaret cuties to put on a show, then announced an even greater morale booster-a 20% pay raise for privates and corporals...