Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with 600 music lovers and curiosity seekers of unrestricted tastes. First, Guy Lombardo, 62, borrowed four musicians from Count Basie, 60, for several numbers that sounded Royally Canadian. The Count countered by swiping eight guys from Guy, for a medley indistinguishable from basic Basie. But it took that great ham operator, Jackie Gleason, 49, to get the bands jamming together, when, with short waves of his smoldering cigarette, he led the 32-man combined ensemble through Rampart Street and Johnson...
While the play has been deservedly well-cast, the fantastic acting creation of the evening is Michael O'Sullivan's Tartuffe. It is appropriate, if amazing, to say that the ham in the actor reveals the pig in mankind. Sparing no excess of speech, gesture or mien, he performs a surrealistic wedding dance of malice and humor. Almost equal praise accrues to Richard Wilbur, the poet. Despite a slight trace of melodic monotony, his springy, intelligent couplets turn Molière's French into speakably idiomatic English...
Little Herbie Solomon was, every body said, a square. While the other saxophone players at Brooklyn's Abra ham Lincoln High School were trying to imitate the new bebop style of Charlie ("Bird") Parker. Herbie was still practicing to old Illinois Jacquet and Flip Phillips records. You're not with it, Herbie, they said, and refused to let him play with the school's dance band...
...becoming nearly as popular as the hot tamale, General Foods began selling jars of the fiery chocolate sauce called mole. Though the French have remained staunchly traditionalist in the foods they eat, they have developed a liking for modern baby foods. Reason: by introducing such baby foods as smoked ham, filet of sole and cream of bananas to please the parents' palates, Gerbers appealed to the buyers rather than the consumers, who have little choice in the matter...
...officers have hitherto been allowed to operate, specifically forbids them to accept not only gifts and gratuities but that pillar of modern U.S. society, the expense-account lunch. "This thing is absurd," says Louisiana Congressman F. Edward Hebert. "It means officers can't accept a Coke or a ham sandwich. It says in effect that an admiral can be bribed by a lunch." Cried an anguished aircraft-company representative: "It's an infraction of my civil rights...