Word: jig
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...restore happiness, Kerr prescribes purposeless fun. It should be as preposterous as possible, with rules as capricious as the one that dictates keeping the arms limp in an Irish jig. Art is the finest form of fun so long as it is not overburdened by a "message." Americans must learn to relax and surrender to contemplation, which is "almost like falling in love." When they have exhausted the pleasure of comic books, they will automatically graduate to Sherlock Holmes, then to Shakespeare, without having to ponder whether it has all been worthwhile...
...Days past Egypt's Sphinx adorned with the thick mustache and rolling eyes of Robert Newton. Bass did the credits of West Side Story, scrawled on grimy walls like four-letter words. He drew the fixed and crippled hand of The Man with the Golden Arm and the jig-sawed corpse of Anatomy of a Murder. For Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, he let his spook imagination run on even further. He began with a vulture-close view of a human eye, then moved in side the eye. where spinning, vertiginously kaleidoscopic patterns appeared and changed form, starting Hitchcock...
...self-therapy, he can "get this place going," as the tramp caretaker puts it. The elder brother believes that his salvation lies in building a workshop in the yard, but he is finicky about using only "good wood," and he gets to a hardware store so belatedly that the jig saw he needs is "gone." The tramp plans to make a trip to a nearby town for some personal papers that will clarify his identity, yet he repeatedly puts it off because his shoes and the weather are not quite right. The younger brother believes that he himself will forge...
...then fall back in a slack-limbed pantomime of despair. To a suddenly quickened rhythm, a Negro dancer bounds onstage, is quickly surrounded by mocking, finger-snapping whites. For a time they applaud his acrobatics, then stare stonily as he wanders pathetically away. As a new stageful of dancers jig in a mechanistic imitation of gaiety, they are suddenly obscured by a billowing drop decorated with atomic symbols. At ballet's end the music breaks off with chill abruptness, leaving the original four dancers staring blankly at the audience over the footlights...
...London editor of the Liverpool Evening Express, a brash young man whose hair broke over a "rather high brow in embarrassing, almost girlish waves." At 29, he became editor of the Daily Express, second-largest daily in the Western world (after the London Daily Herald). In jig time, Christiansen had the Express in front, although it was later overtaken by the London Daily Mirror. Before a heart attack forced him into retirement, Express circulation doubled...