Word: da
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Coup. The military move started last month in the northeast state of Ceara, when an army general arrested four deputies in the state legislature, accusing them of Communist subversion. Castello Branco ordered the deputies released, but the general was backed by powerful allies-chief among them War Minister Artur da Costa e Silva, a prime architect of the revolution. For three days neither side budged, while the officers talked openly of a coup. Then the Ceara legislature mercifully intervened, revoking the deputies' constitutional immunity-thus making it legal for the army to arrest them...
...bitter demitasses during the interval were enough to make the evening. But producer Walter Jewell included an opera to boot, with lots of buffa schmaltz, all the trimmings: a bevy of beautiful girls, elegant costumes, and a glittering Mozart score with a light, frothy libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte...
With the porter's alarm at Rome's Leonardo Da Vinci airport last week began an espionage yarn that grew steadily more hilarious to onlookers and more embarrassing to Egypt...
...ears. Her range goes from lower owl to upper sparrow. Her voice sounds all of 20 years old. Her manner, for all her speed, is soothing. Just when you think she might be turning into Bonnie Baker, however, she kicks the lid off and begins to scat: "Scoodee-oo-da...
...chair professor of the art of scat singing, wherein a singer abandons comprehensible lyrics in the middle of a song, and she can scoodee-oo-da for 800 bars without running out of fresh gibberish. For added sparks, she tosses in little shards of the classics, such as, say, a bit of the William Tell Overture. Then suddenly she turns to a robust fragment of Did You Ever...