Word: goldberg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...semiburied implant, using a Vitallium latticework placed on the mandible, or lower jaw. As the process is described in Implant Dentures (Lippincott; $12) by Drs. Aaron Gershkoff and Norman I. Goldberg of Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, soft tissues are sutured over the lattice, leaving four posts protruding in the mouth to support and anchor dentures...
...wing of the ornate Kurzaal at Scheveningen, The Netherlands, bowed to the scattered applause, and took her place at the piano. For the next 90 minutes she kept her eyes fixed on the keyboard while her groomed fingers agilely feather-dusted and trip-hammered through Bach's Goldberg Variations. At the last note, she slumped in her seat as wave after wave of applause broke over her bowed head...
...giving all-Bach recitals by the time she was 15. At 16, as an applicant for a scholarship at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music, she staggered the judges by offering to ripple off 16 Bach preludes and fugues. In her second year at Juilliard she learned the Goldberg Variations in five weeks, was later told by the president that it was impossible to play the Variations (unmodified) on a piano. "Luckily," says Rosalyn Tureck, "I hadn't known that." After graduation she joined Juilliard's faculty...
...find it and bring it into court. This argument was effectively demolished by the Government's answer to the new-trial motion, in which U.S. District Attorney Myles Lane described the new Hiss argument as "a combination of a Grimm fairy tale with a bit of a Rube Goldberg twist." But Hiss rests his book, and in effect, his hope for vindication, on this forgery charge...
...Clair, Glenn Goldberg is an incredibly marvelous ham, getting every possible laugh out of each word, and getting a few more with his actions. His singing is not as good, perhaps because he puts so much work into the dialogue, that there's nothing new left for the songs. As her blonde daughter Ivy, Nick Carter brings the house down. He is a delightful summer edition of one of F. Scott Fitzgerald's more uncomfortable winter dreams. Uncle Peter is played by Dave Wells. From the very tips of his moustache he drips with a beguiling, bloody-British, and beautifully...