Word: glue
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...song with chorus that evokes the lure and lore of ol' man river. The score's low-water mark is struck in a rankly commercial number entitled Apple Jack, a shallow echo of some of Weill's earlier work. "Weill's best melodies are like glue," exclaims Rosenstock. "If you listen to them, they stick." The most adhesive refrain in Huckleberry is called This Time Next Year and expresses Jim's dream of freedom. Sung by Thomas Carey, a Negro baritone from New York City, and lushly embellished by 45 crack musicians from the Vienna...
Improbably, he got off a bus at the first theater he saw, asked for a job, and got one-painting sets and boiling glue. Two years later, he was making $5 a week doing walk-ons. This was the threshold of solvency, apparently, for he never went near a university or the Foreign Office...
Although Cornell's height was supposed to have made the difference, Harvard outrebounded the towering Big Red 38-33. But Cornell's defense was like glue, and the Crimson missed 40 of 70 shots during the night; Cornell rank...
Lambuth despised inert verbs: "To be is the weakest of all verbs because it merely joins two ideas together with a colorless glue." He liked verbs that are "busy doing or making something." Not When Elizabeth was queen, but When Elizabeth reigned. He sought concrete words standing for "material things which may be seen, touched, tasted, smelled or heard." No Lambuth student could write that a man indulged in an act of generosity; he wrote that a man gave a dollar to a tramp. Abstract: He gave vehement and conclusive expression to his anger. Concrete: His fist landed squarely...
ALFONSO OSSORIO-Cordier & Ekstrom, 978 Madison Ave. at 76th St. Twenty-nine panels on which seashells, fake pearls, links of rusty chain, hunks of bone (with glass eyes staring from the marrow), shards of mirrors, jaw teeth, driftwood and other flotsam have become mired in puddles of plastic glue. Gaudy, repetitious and faintly emetic. Through...