Word: coolerator
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Miles Davis had come on with his "impressionist" jazz style?a rubato blowing in spurts and swoons, free of any vibrato, cooler than ice. The Modern Jazz Quartet was playing a kind of introverted 17th century jazz behind inscrutable faces, and Dave Brubeck (TIME cover, Nov. 8, 1954) introduced polished sound that came with the complete approval of Darius Milhaud. Suddenly jazz?one of the loveliest and loneliest of sounds, the creation of sad and sensitive men?was awash with rondos and fugues. The hipsters began dressing like graduate students...
...around a vaulter's pole. His forceful, lavender-colored Mother and Child casts the swaying shadow of a madonna into a posture of freedom. In keeping with the size of his studio, the paintings are small; their message is that the great talent, having been put in the cooler, is frozen...
...Cooler heads prevailed...
...bitter: "Give us a bit more comfort! That's our battle cry now. All the ingenuity of men, which was harnessed for so long to nobility and beauty, is now bent on finding something a bit softer to put under their bottoms. Contraptions to make our drinks cooler, our houses warmer, our beds softer. It's disgusting...
...thinks, and Director Olmi does not explicitly contradict him. He simply watches the boy put on his uniform, sit at his desk, run an errand here and an errand there, find out how bosses talk to office boys ("Will power works miracles!"), pick up some wisdom at the water cooler ("Never trust a man with two nostrils"), peer into his first pay envelope, start a little office romance (Loredana Detto), survive a big office party, inspect a dozen dismal, petty employees who function as industrial implements but do not live...