Word: knife
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hamburg, Germany, anyone can dial 4166 and hear hit records of the week. Most startling selection: Louis Armstrong playing and croaking a catchy 4/4 time ditty called Mack the Knife...
...appearance of this song as an American jazz hit marks the end of a remarkable odyssey; Mack the Knife, originally the prologue of Kurt Weill's famed Threepenny Opera, was first heard in Berlin 28 years ago. It also marks a remarkable revival, on records, of Kurt Weill's other music-the legacy of a strange, half-angry, half-sentimental genius...
...city. Vaguely based on John Gay's 18th century original, the German libretto by Poet Bert Brecht (now a propaganda wheel in East Germany) had a vicious underdog snarl ("First fill our bellies, then talk morality") and magnificent, vulgar humor. Like the rest of the work, Mack the Knife* was a bitter satire of society and of schmalzy, popular music; it gave a ragtime catalogue of murder, arson and rape...
...Knife. Clifford Odets gums away at some sour grapes, and spits the seeds at Hollywood; with Jack Palance, Ida Lupino (TIME...
...love with love, Amrita and Hari see only what they want to in each other. With her B.A. degree, Amrita thinks of untutored Hari as a simple, unspoiled sort who should eat with his fingers. To be worthy of her upper-class favors, Hari struggles manfully with a knife and fork instead and stifles his burps...