Word: footings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exuberance and smooth delivery (note the trumpet's sassy quote of Sweet Georgia Brown and the baritone sax's sly paraphrase of Once I Had a Secret Love). While Mississippi Dip is a blues to be taken lithely, A Taste of Honey switches tempos faster than the foot can follow, building to heated ensemble crescendos behind Frank Foster's tenor and Jerry Dodgion's flute solos. New Girl, composed by Pearson, has a graceful flair and a nifty construction...
...Oddly, composers as a group seem to be unusually prone to bizarre deaths. Among others: Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687) died of gangrene after smashing his foot with a heavy, canelike conductor's baton while leading an orchestra; Charles Valentin-Alkan (1813-1888) toppled a bookcase over on himself while reaching for a copy of the Talmud; Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) came down with cholera after drinking a glass of tap water; and Wallingford Riegger (1885-1961) suffered fatal brain damage when he became entangled in the leashes of two fighting dogs and fell on a sidewalk...
...plotless jumble of scenes that might have resulted from a collaboration by Brecht, Beckett and Buster Keaton. "Nobody looks at me," sang one character in a typically enigmatic line, "therefore I retrace my steps." In another episode, a scruffy charwoman incongruously trilled out an aria while brandishing a three-foot wooden spoon at the other characters...
...when ordinary folks were beginning to yearn for "nice things" and even a few luxuries-if they were cheap enough and guaranteed to be durable. It was an enjoyment simply to peruse the bargains offered in men's toupees and nerve pills, mowing machines and dog-powered churns, foot scrapers and kraut cutters. Sears sewing machines and wagons, forges or stoves, were guaranteed to give the purchaser status ("The neighbors would admire it once they were permitted to inspect...
Shoe Under the Curtain. Owings ?and the committee's ? goal is to turn Pennsylvania Avenue into Washington's ceremonial street ? a rival to Paris' Champs-Elysées. When completed, it will run straight and wide from a great reflecting pool at the foot of the Capitol to a National Square before the White House. Crucial to the plan is the 75-ft. setback along the avenue's north side, which is already being redeveloped by the Government and private entrepreneurs. To keep the setback, Owings has had to deploy his considerable powers of suasion. When he learned...