Word: cool
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...good works. After ten years' absence from the recording mike, she is back in good form as the pianistic pivot of several talented groups, among them the Howard Roberts Chorus, which sings her Black Christ of the Andes. As a hymn it is simple and moving, with cool kaleidoscopic harmonies, but its jazz superstructure seems to be an afterthought...
Irresistible Combination. The best detective-heroes have always been superbly attuned to their own age. Sherlock Holmes splendidly reflects a Victorian-Edwardian belief in rationality and cool logic; Dashiell Hammett's hard-nosed Sam Spade and Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe were right for the Depression years...
...York. When O'Connell died in April 1944, Cushing was made temporary administrator of the archdiocese, and later that year he was formally installed as archbishop, thanks in large part to the intervention of Spellman. Friends then and now, Cushing and Spellman went through a long decade of cool relations. "The difference was to a large degree temperamental-the difference between a roughie [Cushing] and a smoothie," explains one veteran of church politics. "The smoothie thought he could tell the roughie what to do-and he couldn't." Opposition of New York's cardinal helped keep Cushing...
...exhibit. Visitors who have their minds set on seeing the main attractions spend a good part of a day standing in queues. Transportation is expensive: it costs $3 just to board a Greyhound escorter-if you can find one. The hardest thing of all to track down is a cool soft drink, and even that entails waiting in line...
Tall, shapely Virna Lisi, 27, has a non-Latin look that appeals to Italian fans and will be sampled by U.S. audiences when she appears with Jack Lemmon in How to Murder Your Wife, her first Hollywood film. Sylva (38-26-38) Koscina, 27, is another tall, cool one, a Yugoslav by birth, who came on strong in Joseph Levine's muscle opera, Hercules, and keeps the paparazzi popping by strolling around in skintight black leather ski pants...