Word: gal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nothing had happened to their music or to their lives, though in some cases, it meant the return of white-haired old men to bands and friends they had left 30 years before. Some have since become internationally known: Billie and Dede Pierce, Sweet Emma the bell gal, the Kid Thomas band, and the Eureka Brass Band all rose from relative obscurity as a result of the Preservation Hall revival...
...amused by your article on Beate Uhse's West German "sporting goods" stores [May 2]. But no wonder the poor gal doesn't try to sell her wares here. She would be hauled into jail on her first day, while next door an American sporting goods store, selling enough guns to kill every cop in Chicago, would be within...
...pictures. The still ones, that is; nothing can quite match the films. Zimmerman shows just how much Groucho could inscribe on the head of a pun: "This is indeed a gala day. That's plenty. I don't think I could handle more than a gal a day." He retells the best of the anecdotes from the days when the boys were as funny off-screen as on. Best of all, the book resists the temptation to analyze, observing E. B. White's dictum: "Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies...
...created man, so Shakespeare created Hamlet. He is an infinite mar vel. He is more than a part: he is an element, a realm, a cosmos. He is man in extremis, fencing desperately and gal lantly on the rim of an abyss called fate. To watch him is to be chilled and electrified by the destiny...