Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Park. Jimmy led the boys through a passel of his favorites: Pickin' 'Em Up and Layin' 'Em Down, 42nd Street, My Funny Valentine. The bass wove its low melodic line against the woodsy, paper-dry clarinet sound, the guitar attacked as solo rather than rhythm instrument. Sometimes Jimmy had five instruments (he played tenor and baritone sax and clarinet) shuttling in a complicated web of converging and diverging solo sounds. Of his own compositions, Gotta Dance proved to be a happy, hopping number marked by the husky noodling of Giuffre's sax. The Train...
Puppet on a String. Giuffre's own compositions are written without the aid of an instrument-he just uses "the inner ear." They are often inspired by the green countryside that he and his fellow soloists roll through in their orange-and-brown Volkswagen bus, and written down in odd moments between performances. The results are unusually appealing, sometimes suggesting purposeful musical doodles, sometimes the dance of a rubber-jointed, graceful puppet on a string...
...inevitable involvement of its military strength and influence in the everyday life of the free world, the U.S. has long sought to define a legal relationship between the rights of American servicemen stationed abroad and the inherent rights of allied nations. The U.S.'s principal instrument: a worldwide network of more than 40 "status-of-forces agreements" designed to legalize the status of 700,000 U.S. servicemen in friendly countries. The status-of-forces agreements-roughly granting to U.S. military courts the right to try G.I.s for on-duty offenses, granting to the host country jurisdiction over off-duty...
Proposed costume for Actress Jayne Mansfield playing the Prince of Denmark [June 24]: "black tights, bare bodkin." Bodkin threw me for a loop, so I referred to my faithful dictionary, which states that a bodkin is "an instrument for drawing tape through a hem, a pointed instrument . . . a pin for fastening the hair." Even on Miss Mansfield, I can't imagine anything less interesting than a "bare bodkin...
Some of these stations will do exciting things, such as shooting rockets to the top of the atmosphere or launching great balloons with instrument-packed gondolas. The duties of others will be exciting only to dedicated specialists: monotonous observations of winds, ocean currents, cosmic rays, the aurora, changes in the sun's surface, fading of radio waves and twinkling of stars. But all such observations will be important, and the data flowing from them will be carefully stored and catalogued in designated centers...