Word: horned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mulligan sound is a low sound, a tense sound. Unlike Dixieland, it reaches no climaxes, and explodes in no blasting solos. Instead, it edges back and forth, finds harmony for a few lines, then slips off into exciting dissonance. Many times, the two voices of the sax and horn have been compared with their counter-parts in a Bach two part invention...
None of the three men who now play with Mulligan were with him on the Coast. Gone is Chet Baker, a trumpeter who got too good to play second fiddle. Together, Baker and Mulligan worked perfectly--the easy, sliver-like sounds of Baker's horn a perfect complement to the fullness of the baritone sax. Not until last night have I heard Brookmeyer do as well with Mulligan as Baker...
Throughout the day, Joe McCarthy had been far more subdued than at previous sessions, nibbling thoughtfully on the bow of his horn-rimmed glasses. When he started questioning Stevens, he was friendly, almost gentle. Said he: "Look, Bob, you're accusing Carr, my staff director, of a very serious thing . . . You see. Bob, you are asking that a young man be discharged .... and you can't tell us what he said...
...Frank ("The Hands") Costello, but the cast was fascinating in its own way. There were McCarthy, alternately menacing and benign, doodling or rolling his eyes at the ceiling; slick-haired Roy Cohn, licking his lips and buzzing in the boss's ear; Secretary Stevens, eager but harassed, his horn-rimmed glasses forever sliding down his nose; Arkansas' Senator McClellan. rough and ready, if sometimes confused, the committee's angry man; Senator Mundt, jowls aquiver, chugging at his pipe; Counsel Ray Jenkins, with his formidable scowl and unrelenting legalistic precision...
...with his right hand he started pulling up my skirt." Was there any more con versation? "No sir," she told the Bakersfield coroner, "It was all action." As her muscular assailant reached for her, Mrs. Krone stepped on the throttle, brought her left forearm down on the steering wheel horn ring, and pushed at him with her right hand. He grabbed the wheel and ran the car off the road. She opened the door, jumped...