Word: dapper
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...Russian musical died with Stalin, but the '50s and '60s saw a little bloom in Soviet-bloc musicals that were much more in step with Hollywood films. In three 1965 movies you'll see a dapper gent figure-skating around a woman in her bedroom (the Czech-East German The Wayward Wife), a DayGlo-bright production number in a spa (Woman on the Rails, Czechoslovakia), a Bulgarian Connie Francis in full taunt (The Antique Coin). But the syncopated clock was ticking; Commusicals fizzled out, as Hollywood song shows did, in the early...
...that the composer of Take the "A" Train and Satin Doll and of orchestral suites like Such Sweet Thunder was Duke Ellington. But most people are wrong. The composer, or in many cases the co-composer, of those and dozens of other hallmarks of the Ellington sound was a dapper, diminutive musicians' musician named Billy Strayhorn. From 1938 until his death of cancer in 1967, Strayhorn was Ellington's artistic alter ego--bolstered and publicly praised by the Duke but working always in his shadow, less an employee than a member of his extended household...
...give the President a boost. In the longer run, the abrupt end of Dudayev's one-man leadership could result in splits and instability among the Chechen rebel commanders and make a settlement even harder to reach. Still, Yeltsin will no doubt be glad Dudayev is finished. The dapper, mustached former Soviet Air Force general had the infuriating habit of outwitting and outlasting Russian troops, turning up on television and giving interviews to inquiring correspondents...
...ADMIRERS BACK IN NIGERIA, Olushina Adekanbi, 36, was revered as the "King of New York." U.S. law-enforcement officials were less adulatory. They knew the dapper Nigerian as a man of more than two dozen aliases who allegedly ran the largest ring of credit-card thieves in the U.S. Authorities busted Adekanbi last September on credit-fraud charges. Then last week, after a five-month investigation, they brought some 200 counts against the still-jailed Adekanbi and seven other Nigerians, including Adekanbi's wife Mary. The quondam king could go to prison for up to 25 years. "We've broken...
...Francisco-based Minton, 45, has devoted his career to the music of the '20s and '30s. With his dapper dress and trim moustache, the pianist even looks as if he could have stepped out of an F. Scott Fitzgerald story. Suesse is his special passion. At 20 he wrote a fan letter to the aging pianist, then living in Connecticut. Their correspondence blossomed into a friendship, and after hearing a tape of his playing, Suesse invited Mintun to visit her. When she moved to the Virgin Islands in 1975, she gave her protege her scrapbooks, recordings and, at a fraction...