Word: contented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...squarely with the bottle. Twenty-two Sensational Displays Where Daredeviltry Beggars Description, a Mammoth Menagerie and a Block-Busting Convention of 115 Cavorting Clowns assure enough show time for any calliope fan to consume peanuts, popcorn, and pink cotton candy to his heart's content. If by the end of four hours he hasn't forgotten his finals altogether, he deserves a well-lighted seat in the Side-Show...
...Terrific Content." In 1927 the Cotton Club was a big, flossy Harlem joint at 143rd Street and Lenox Avenue, with bandana tablecloths, fake foliage and a reputation as a speakeasy. But Harvard and Princeton boys soon found the way there and crowded around the bandstand on weekends. They muttered sagely to each other "terrific mood, terrific content" as the Duke played such originals as The Mooche, Mood Indigo and Black and Tan Fantasy. The New Orleans jazz boys were then spreading a simple, primitive and powerful music; but the Duke was talking a new pulsing and sensual language...
These losses, which Rank can ill afford, have taught him to change his way of treating his stars. He had been content to make verbal contracts with them. But when Phyllis Calvert, the No. 2 female star in Britain, went to Hollywood to visit and came back with a written contract, he decided that he had better get tougher. (He refuses to make another picture with Calvert, saying sadly: "I have turned her picture to the wall.") Rank now leashes his people with seven-year contracts before letting them loose in Hollywood...
...Chavez's music reveals the expressive content of its choreography in general, if not unvarying success; it has both discreetly employed dissonance and pungency and melodic inventiveness. Sometimes it gives a sense of conventionality as well as of skill, while the closing episode provides some of the most expressively persuasive measures of the score...
...this composer's usual sphere of unfiled phantasmagoria. It taxes the strings, quite successfully, to the hilt, with truncated, screeching tremolos, portamentos, and sounds produced with the back of the bow. But the more familiar this listener becomes with Schoenberg's devices, the less is he able to be content with the sheer magnificent discoveries of sounds, and the more is he confirmed in his preconception that a work of art demands by nature a connecting tissue alien to Schoenberg's methods...