Word: heart
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Composer Philippe-Gérard, who wrote the score for the hit movie Rififi, long ago decided that "the truest and most exciting tempo of all might be the human heart." He borrowed a stethoscope, listened to some 50 hearts before he heard just the cardiac sound he wanted: it was thumping in the chest of a 21-year-old Parisian sales girl and model named Nicole Guillenette. What Philippe-Gérard liked about Nicole, he says, is that her heart turned over at a remarkably steady 58 beats to the minute (ideal, in his judgment, for rock...
...results could make a cardiac case out of a cuttlefish. In Rock du Coeur, the heart thuds (behind an electric guitar, a clavichord and drums) like a bass fiddle muffled in cotton wool. In Cha-Cha du Coeur, the heart sounds louder, its labors interrupted now and then by whispered "cha cha chas." The effect on the listener, noted France-Soir, was to create "a kind of obsession, almost anxiety." But Paris cats were buying the record briskly last week, and other record makers are sure to approach Model Guillenette with stethoscopes in hand; nobody, she said...
What the 18th century U.S. schoolboy beheld was a tiaraed bogeyman, whose heart appeared to mask Malice, Murder and Treachery. The caricature went undisputed. In the Protestant schools of the time, Roman Catholics were barred from teaching jobs. As Irish and German immigrants swelled the U.S. Catholic population, their bishops (in 1884) announced an urgent edict. Every parish priest must organize a parochial school; Catholic parents must send their children to such schools whenever possible...
Though relatively few earthlings are aware of it, they are embedded in a huge, disk-shaped spiral galaxy. Earth's astronomers have a hard time seeing much else; every star visible in the sky is part of it.* They have an even harder time seeing into its heart (located roughly in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius) because it is obscured by the close-packed stars and cosmic dust that comprise the Milky...
Died. Gerard Philipe, 36, dashing French film star who was equally at home in farce (Fanfan the Tulip), tragedy (Devil in the Flesh), or existentialist love (The Proud and the Beautiful); of a heart attack; in Paris...