Word: jived
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...David Rosen, offers the kind of food (mostly fried, nothing green), music (all jive, nothing square) and atmosphere (a roomful of peers) that the teen-ager likes. The success of the Stick, which is jammed six nights a week with undulating youngsters, has led to the creation of two other teen-age nightclubs in the Los Angeles area: the Cinnamon Cinder (a "supper club" where supper means pizza and "no Levi's or Capris" are permitted) and Pandora's Box, a slightly more sophisticated version of the plain old teen-age club. Pandora's has the distinction...
Married. Edward ("Kookie") Byrnes, 28, jive-talking junior shamus of TV's 77 Sunset Strip; and Alabama-born Cinema Starlet Asa Maynor, 24; at Beverly Hills' All Saints' Episcopal Church, with Sunset Strip Colleagues Roger Smith and Efrem Zimbalist Jr. as best man and usher...
...major threat to Gillette, electric shaver sales have fallen from a high of $138 million in 1956 to $100 million last year. To maintain its preeminence, Gillette aims much of its annual $35-$40 million advertising budget to wooing new shavers. Sunday comic sections are saturated with ads, and jive-talking disk jockeys ad-lib the merits of a "smooth kisser for the cool chick, young buddy." For as Carl Gilbert well knows, today's peach fuzz is tomorrow's 5 o'clock shadow...
Although Ellington started discussing his suite with Festival Manager Jimmy Lyons three years ago, he did not get down to serious work until this summer. He then called up Lyons and asked a few pointed questions: "I don't remember the book too well-any jive going on? Is there some jungle [i.e., conflict]? There's gotta be some sweetness and fruit." With the plot straight in his mind, the Duke sat down and dashed off a four-part suite with typically cryptic subtitles: Miss Fits Blues, Schwiphti, Zweet Zurzday, Lay-By. "That last," explained the Duke...
moldy fig (jive)-a pedant