Word: impromptu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...California. Spacecraft Gemini 8 and Gemini 9 establish an historic orbital link-up. Astronaut Roger Overendhout, clad in red, white, and blue underwear, is able to crawl from one capsule to another. Playing a tube he had carefully smuggled aboard in his space suit, he performs a riotous impromptu strip-tease for the laughing crew of Gemini 8. Astronaut Kirwood Derby Jr., using a small NBC-TV camera he was carefully paid $10,000 to smuggle aboard in his spacesuit, records the whole scene for the live television audiences...
Coal Bin Sessions. The ebullient Miss Rice publishes a yearly newsletter filled with members' adventures in impromptu music-making in far-off lands and chatty items about "an intradirectory wedding, bassoon-C to cello-D." Membership ranges from Foreign Policy Association President Samuel Hayes (viola-B) to a Manhattan night elevator operator (cello-B) who held wee-hour sessions in the coal bin of his building. Says Miss Rice: "There are a great many of us queer ducks who really love to play just for the sheer...
Alice Sycamore (Rosemary Harris) that her native clan is prodigiously eccentric until Tony Kirby (Clayton Corzatte) of the Wall Street Kirbys proposes to her. The Kirby family crest is the stuffed shirt, but it is lofted in surrender to the free-souled Sycamores after a hilariously impromptu dinner and an even more impromptu night in jail...
Died. Sigmund Spaeth, 80, prolific author of music-appreciation texts (Music for Fun), remembered by radio and vaudeville audiences of the 1920s and 1930s as the razzle-dazzle "Tune Detective" who blithely traced the ancestry of I'm Always Chasing Rainbows to Chopin's Fantaisie Impromptu and Yes, We Have No Bananas to Handel's Hallelujah Chorus; of an intestinal hemorrhage; in Manhattan...
...magic of a sequence in which Giulietta's grandfather succumbs to a lady bareback rider to her neighbor's improbable Eden - an art-nouveau fleshpot in rainbow hues where sinners can slide a chute from bed to swimming pool or repair to a tree house devised for impromptu seductions...