Word: clanged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Carol Haney, 39, snub-nosed, pixiefied dancer-comedienne who burst into fame in the 1954 musical Pajama Game as Gladys, the offbeat secretary who had (clang, clang) "Ss-s-s-steam Heat," but, after being hospitalized for diabetes and exhaustion in 1957, simmered down to become one of Broadway's most popular choreographers, arranging dances for Flower Drum Song and Funny Girl; of pneumonia, complicated by diabetes; in Manhattan...
...foot stompers, Birdland is now proudly presenting such audience winners as Dodo Green, DeeDee Ford, the Allegros and the Jive Bombers. The new acts have a "visual" appeal, Goodstein says, that brings some new cheer into the room. As for their music, it is mainly of the clang-clang-clang-baby school, played with the thumping beat of a garbage can rolling down a flight of stairs...
...time." The time was the 1920s and '30s, and the man was Wyndham Lewis. Since then, Lewis has died, and the many battles he fought and which seemed so important at the time have passed into memory. Now Lewis' collected letters recall those battles-the clang and clatter of cubism, futurism, imagism, vorticism; the boisterous challenge to the literary establishment of "the Men of 1914": Eliot, James Joyce, Ezra Pound and, not least by a long shot, Wyndham Lewis...
...Jungle of Cities luxuriates with bizarre effects that probably symbolize very little. Actors clang bells when they go on and off the set; scene changes are announced on a sign bordered with flashing yellow lights, and furniture is made out of boxes lettered with the words "love," "hate," "cat," and "die." Florid, epigrammatic dialogue matches the props, with lines like "Security is a pipe dream until the next ice age comes...
...young girl Donamayee teases a pet bird and is teased in turn by her husband. Then, suddenly revealed as a incarnation of the Mother Goddess, she finds herself worshipped by her family, adored by crowds of pilgrims. She sits enthroned in an incense-clouded temple; priests chant and bells clang...