Word: hawking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Back in Bean's Bag (Coleman Hawkins, Clark Terry; Columbia) was intended as an epochal encounter between Hawkins' tenor sax and Terry's virtuoso trumpet. Then something went wrong; the true soloist turns out to be Tommy Flanagan on piano. During Hawk's flights of fancy, a wildly distorted recording balance hides the horn behind the accompaniment...
...feet were twisted into one another, and the toenails looked like they hadn't been out for months, like a hawk's She was the thinnest person I had ever seen: she looked like these pictures from the concentration camps, except that her body was all by itself, and it was green. The skin just flopped ever her bones like the stuff you pick off the top of cocoa with your spoon...
...only NHL action tonight, the Detroit Red Wings will play a crucial game in Black Hawk territory. A loss for the Hawks would drop them into third place behind the Canadiens. The other remaining Chicago games are at Montreal and Boston on Saturday and Sunday night...
...mountains of paper work to justify every figure. A Midwest contractor found a Navy procurement officer stalking through his plant with a stopwatch, doing time-motion studies on the employees to see if the company could do the Navy's work more cheaply. The General Accounting Office, whose hawk-eyed civil servants dog the Pentagon procurers, has a San Francisco headquarters from which 85 auditors foray out to make sure that company costs are being held down. Chicago's Hallicrafters Co., which had a fixed-price contract to deliver electronic components for the Army's Nike-Zeus...
Enter the villain (Keenan Wynn), a mustached miscreant named Alonzo Hawk who proposes a dastardly scheme to get rich quick: buy stock in glass companies, and then-heh-heh-heh-break every window in the world! But the professor proudly refuses, and jumps in his flivver. He doesn't want to miss The Big Game-and neither will any moviegoer who needs a good, old-fashioned locomotive laugh. It's a flubbergasser...