Word: expert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Normally as peaceable as a lullaby, Brubeck has been known to come off the bandstand in the middle of a number and threaten to silence a noisy customer with his muscular hands, which, until a few years ago, were expert at roping cattle. But it has been quite a while since he has been forced to such extremes with audiences. Nowadays, people listen...
...David Run? Last year Brubeck won Down Beat's popularity and critics' poll, Metronome's "AllStar" Poll. "Man, they wail!" wrote Down Beat Jazz Editor Nat Hentoff of the quartet. "A kind of teamwork which is without parallel in the entire field of music," wrote Jazz Expert George Avakian, who brought the quartet to Columbia Records. "Complicated and extremely cerebral, [Brubeck's music] has tremendous drive and surprising warmth," wrote Critic John Hammond. This kind of music (for 45 minutes three to five times a night) earns the quartet up to $2,500 a week. With...
...horror, the pond now seemed roiled; the paint, soft because of impure linseed oil, had started to slide down the subject's face (see cut). Frantic, the owner turned the portrait upside down, hoping that the paint would run back into its proper place. But, as one museum expert wryly remarked, paint does not know its proper place...
Since 1951, several other Ket paintings have leaked wet paint, and last week, in the Municipal Museum of Arnhem, an expert gingerly fingered a bulge in the eye of a fifth. Covered by the dried surface film was a tiny pool of wet paint. The museum director, who has two other deteriorating Kets, took a deep breath and put in a call for a restorer who might be able to put Ket together again...
Last week, at a public debate on McCarthy in Sayville, L.I. with Fred Woltman, the Scripps-Howard Communist expert, Rushmore again criticized Cohn. Furthermore, when hecklers got after Woltman for his series walloping McCarthy (TiME. July 19), Rushmore rushed to Woltman's defense. Warned Woltman on the way home: "You'll get fired for this...