Word: ees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...narrow 219 votes (with Labor a poor third) and became the new M.P. from Torrington. Mused a Devon farmer in corduroy breeches and leather leggings: "The Liberals may be no better'n no worse'n the others-but they might be better; can't tell till ee try, can ee...
...deep-purple (D below middle C) jazz singer who wears wicked black sheaths and Vampira makeup, and is visually and musically the most striking of the new girl singers. Her audiovisual analogue would be a bass sax wrapped in a lace nightie. Using a vocabulary of oo's, ee's and ah's, she sings one entire side of her first LP (That Satin Doll; Atlantic) almost completely without words. This could sound like a cat trapped in a rain barrel, but somehow manages not to. In the best of her all-but-wordless songs (the composer...
...becomes merely amusing when he borrows from advertisements (A piece of apple pie is "nutritious, and ... delicious"), and elsewhere downright sickeningly romantic. ("Holy flowers floating in the dawn of Jazz America.") And when he tries to describe jazz, he reaches the heights of the ridiculous. ("ta-tup-EE-da-de-deraRup ...") It's difficult to see why, in the day of LP's, he thinks it necessary to compete with Charlie Parker on paper...
...pants that ended north of his socks, he became a well-dressed fellow, took to dark suits with a white handkerchief sticking out of the breast pocket. He still spouted cliches ("A stitch in time . . ."; "An ounce of prevention . . .") and he still called the militia the me-lish-ee. but he talked big about running for a third term (which no Arkansas governor has had since 1905) and even acted as if he would like to move into bigger political hills. Said one observer of Orval Faubus' disastrous grandstanding in Little Rock last week: "It seems...
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