Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...background music was written by John Lewis and played by the Modern Jazz Quartet (cool), the photography involves no bright colors or spectacular panoramas (cool), and the characters for the most part act quite coolly inded. Von Bergen calmly informs Sforzi, even as the latter is in the process of killing him, that he (Sforzi) is strictly small time and a crapule to boot. Sforzi himself is the very image of coolness until after the murder; at one point he saunters into the room shared by Sophie and Michel, looks on as Michel assists Sophie with her bath...
...addition, some Houses use the funds for more unusual purposes. Dudley sends a commuting student abroad each summer, Kirkland once engaged the Billy Taylor jazz trio, Winthrop offers grants for special thesis projects, and Adams sponsors exhibitions of student collections ("everything from coins to ikons to rare books...
Died. Warren ("Baby") Dodds, 64, New Orleans-born jazz drummer, one of the greats in the history of jazz; of a heart attack; in Chicago...
...average card has a tag match (two-man teams with the members taking turns mauling each other) that eventually degenerates into a crowd-pleasing, pier-six free-for-all. Midgets may be there to jazz up the act. Here and there, where lenient local authorities permit it, women wrestlers appear to slap each other around. Someone is sure to take a mean-looking poke at the referee (an illegal maneuver in Missouri); someone is sure to heave someone else through the ropes (never over; that, too, is frowned upon...
Honey, what's this jazz about love, honor, and obey...