Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That the musical, the western and jazz are the only authentic American art forms...
...seekers. The placement agency's three Manhattan offices grossed $2,000,000 in their first year of operation and Lois has signed up franchisers in twelve major cities. More recently, Lois Holland Callaway founded a recording company, whimsically named Tonsil Records; its first offering features a rock jazz group called The Gas Mask...
...woods. Europeans are becoming as serious about le sport as Americans, partly because of what the French call le standing, or status. There is exercise for the mind as well as the muscles. The library is handily placed next to the bar. Every evening there are taped concerts of jazz classics or chamber music, and a pretty Parisienne lectures on painting. Tired tennis players and horsemen and sailors, dressed in bikinis or tennis togs, sarongs or tie-dyed shirts and denims, sprawl beneath the pines, delaying their showers for an hour...
...executive producer with Columbia and the discoverer of such diverse talents as Billie Holiday, Count Basie and Bob Dylan, Hammond has a knack for making the unexpected pay off. Actually, Project Bessie Smith is timed perfectly. Blues dominate the pop music scene today in much the same way that jazz did in the late 1930s and early 1940s...
...backward from French finishing school to her father's claustrophobic vicarage in northern England. The old authorities are reasserted, and Yvette is briefly cowed by her hectoring, rectoring father (Maurice Denham) and his priggish relatives. But there is a new spirit in the air. symbolized by soul-quickening jazz, bobbed hair and notions of the emancipated woman. Yvette soon tastes the salt in her blood and begins to seek the fast company of Mrs. Fawcett (Honor Blackman) and her lover, Major Eastwood (Mark Burns). Even more liberating is the anonymous brooding gypsy (Franco Nero), a prototype of Lawrence...