Word: crisps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CHAMADE, by Franchise Sagan. Another swift vignette of autumnal love in Paris, turned out with crisp economy by a Gallic miniaturist...
...lost only one, developed a thunderous right-hand punch to go with a devastating left hook. Finally, in November 1964, the Big Cat got a real chance: he signed to fight Ernie Terrell for the World Boxing Association's version of the heavyweight title. Benbow gave Williams a crisp new $100 bill and told him to celebrate...
ELUES ETUDE (Limelight). Oscar Peterson is still a topflight jazz pianist-a suave swinger with impeccable technique-crisp, fast and featherlight. But half these tracks catch him with a new drummer and bassist, and at times the trio seems merely to be making polite conversation. Oscar softly grunts and moans, rather surprising accompaniments for urbane offerings like Let's Fall in Love and The Shadow of Your Smile...
...since he is the antithesis of the flashy, scene-stealing conductor. Where some maestros seem intent on bending the score to fit their own interpretation, Böhm thinks of himself as the trustee of the composer, lets the music speak for itself. His attack is clean, crisp and controlled, and he adheres to the dictum of his close friend Richard Strauss: the basic duty of the opera conductor is to buoy up rather than drown out the singers. Böhm's stickwork, as spare and exacting as needlepoint, is also an inheritance from Strauss, who, to contain...
...hospital confronting the saurian sneer of "Whiplash Willie" Gingrich (Matthau), an ambulance chaser who, by the look of his crummy clothes, has been chasing them on his hands and knees. Willie's skin is as grey as the towel in a night-court lavatory, but his ideas are crisp and green. As the cameraman's brother-in-law, he loyally announces: "We're going for all the marbles, kid! You got a ringing in your ears and double vision...