Word: fleshiest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slithered a sophisticated lady named Madame Zajj, and the blue moods of the orchestra panted toward violent climaxes. The show, U.S. Steel Hour's A Drum Is a Woman, was Jazzman Duke Ellington's most ambitious project in years, and also one of the fleshiest shows yet seen on the home screen. In fact Ellington's "allegorical tale of the origins of jazz" was a pretentious mishmash of primitive rhythms, pop tunes and sensuality. The sum of Drum was an interesting but meaningless collage, haphazard swatches of torrid rhythmic forms pasted on swirling globs of golds, indigos...
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