Word: drum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...agitated among the 100,000 Vietnamese in Paris, and tried to drum up support for Indo-China reforms at the Versailles Peace Conference (Woodrow Wilson, apparently unwilling to offend the French, did not take up the matter...
...Moon Looks Down. As Carrington well knows, the art is not easy. Drum talk is not a code like Morse. It is actually an attempt to reproduce language. Every syllable has its own tone, which the drummer must be able to catch by striking the hollow log at exactly the right spot. In some Bantu dialects, a single tone pattern may have different meanings, as in the pattern for moon and jowl. Thus, a drummer must know enough to add a qualifying phrase: moon becomes "the moon looks down on the earth" and fowl turns into "the fowl, the little...
Carson gets Lemmon a date with something "basic" (Kim Novak), who gives him that little-girl look, confides that she almost went to college and majored in music - "I was a drum majorette." Meanwhile, Judy has an experience with a charm boy (Donald Curtis) who asks her up to his "an teem" apartment. Jack enters a painting class, sprouts a moustache and buys a lima bean-shaped sports-car. So it goes, and very merrily indeed, until separate existence is just too much to wrestle with, and Judy and Jack get a firm new wedlock on each other...
...torso over the keys, concentrating like a child on a jigsaw puzzle, but his eyes are closed. The other members of the quartet-Alto Saxophonist Paul Desmond, Drummer Joe Dodge and Bass Player Bob Bates-go to work. Desmond's tones are plaintive and pure, the rhythm of drum and bass is as rich and firm as a deep-pile carpet. Like Bach starting off to improvise a passacaglia, they lay down the tune-say, Let's Fall in Love-as a kind of groundwork. Desmond's eyes close, his long fingers glide over his alto...
...psyche is in good order, a unique event takes place. The rhythm seems to take hold of everybody in the room. Drummer Dodge feels it and starts to bang on his Chinese cymbal (an instrument studded with loose rivets that buzz like a dozen sizzling steaks), and his bass drum whaps out compulsively, unpredictably. Bates hunches closer to his bass. Desmond, his lips without their mouthpiece looking like a nearsighted man's eyes without his spectacles, moves quietly away from the piano. Brubeck seems to cut his ties with the tempo and tears off on a remote pulse...