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...parade, and even the stately BBC has begun to show its hips: a new TV series began last month, called The Trad Fad. With a clear and poundingly straightforward beat that avoids the more intricate mathematics of modern jazz, trad centers in such items as Tiger Rag and Cushion Foot Stomp, but often goes absolutely daft with kick-me-baby versions of things like Billy Boy and In a Persian Garden...
...part because private enterprise exceeds what is expected of it. Private enterprise still accounts for 90% of India's gross national product, and will almost surely be able to pick up a larger share of the plan's tab than the. 40% the planners expect. Another cushion is the fact that the government has never been able to spend quite all the funds earmarked for previous plans. Best insurance of all is the pledged determination of two of India's biggest foreign creditors, Britain and the U.S., not to let India fail...
Imitation Surf. With close harmony and wordless rhythm, Norman Kaye and Frankie Ross cushion Mary Kaye's wailing obbligato, producing a pleasant blend of sound that may sometimes suggest the Andrews sisters doing a Pepsodent commercial; but it is just the sort of thinkproof entertainment that gamblers crave. The trio specializes in old standards (Heartaches, And the Angels Sing), and as an extra fail-safe against boredom, Frankie Ross often makes joking commentaries on the lyrics. His gags may not be immortal but usually get a laugh from someone who has just put his 459th consecutive nickel into...
...repeated at last week's concert, along with five other works: Integrates, Ecuatorial, Offrandes, Deserts, Nocturnal. The first three were mostly intricate rhythmic exercises for conventional instruments (plus a leather cushion that was whomped with paddles), while Deserts mixed orchestral sounds with clangorous thunderclaps from the speakers. Nocturnal was the one new work on the program. Scored for soprano, men's chorus and assorted instruments, it was based on a prose poem by Anaï's Nin. None of Nocturnal was taped, but its sounds-chittering strings, night-wailing flutes-were far out enough to fire...
...accelerations must be measured in thousandths of a G (the pull of gravity). No building is steady enough to be free of movements that confuse the sensitive machine. In Philadelphia, Dr. Starr got blurs on his ballistocardiograms every time a streetcar rumbled by eight floors below. To cushion out such vibrations, researchers have turned to various systems of floating the body-strapped to a board-in a pool of mercury or (Dr. Starr's choice) on a foot-thick pile of nylon blankets...