Word: hipping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There's a basic fairness in this country the audiences have had right along," he says. "But only a few producers are hip...
...people crammed into Moscow's Soviet Army Sports Palace divided their attention between him and the figure seated in the government box: Nikita Khrushchev. By his presence, Nikita gave official approval to a brand of music that the Communists have often reviled as decadent. Russian cats were hip enough to know that Benny was really otstaly (out-of-date), but Khrushchev declared himself bewildered. "I enjoyed it," he said as he left, but added: "I don't dance myself, so I don't understand these things too well...
...history. As usual, speed outstripped design: only 15 of the 33 low-slung racing cars that started managed to last the punishing 500-mile distance. A minor melee on the 19th lap knocked four cars out of the race, sent Driver Jack Turner to the hospital with a broken hip and a cracked toe. An early dropout was the 1961 winner, A.J. Foyt, whose Bowes Seal Fast Special threw a wheel at the 75-mile mark. The early leader, Parnelli Jones-who earned the pole position with a dazzling qualifying speed of 150.370 m.p.h., first time anyone has lapped...
...more horrible because it was the only one in the play. Swarthout produces so many horrors he satiates the reader. Nobody will be fooled by pseudo-Greek trappings. "This body was as stately," writes Swarthout, preparing for a seduction scene, "as classic in its shaft of rib and hip and thigh as a column of Ionic order, the lavish capitals of the breasts as perfect, the belly ornate as the enfabled girdle called Cestus...
...inspiration might come from the object, he was not imprisoned by it. Davis' paintings became ballets of what he called "color-spaces," but the beat of the ballets was always jazz. What caught his imagination was everyday America-the gas pumps, factories, cities, the hep talk and hip music-even the signs, "the visual dialect of the city." Since he never lost touch with reality, Davis refuses to be called abstract. His color-spaces are merely "a language to express daily observations...