Word: letting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...album opens with that swinging exercise in cocktail-lounge stoicism, Let's Face the Music and Dance, and ends 31 songs later with a jumping I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm. En route Ella proves again that she is mistress of more moods than anybody else in the business. She bends her remarkably supple voice with sighing ease around tortuous, voice-trapping lyrics ("I want to peep through the deep, tangled wild wood/ Counting sheep 'til I sleep like a child would"). Best of all, she takes the faded material and gives...
Playwright Synge's heirs (he died in 1909), who had at first refused to let anyone tamper with Playboy, finally gave their blessings for the O'Farrell production. BBC bought out one performance to broadcast the show, and there were nibbles from U.S. producers. The charm of lyrics, music and dances took some of the original sting out of Synge. Playwright Synge had never liked what he called "the false joy of the musical comedy," but seeing this show would probably have set his heart awonder...
Designer Boyd admitted frankly that he had slipped on Sceptre, said that if he ever got the chance to design another twelve-meter, "I think I'll go ask Olin Stephens to let me have a look at the lines of Columbia." But Stephens made it plain that the champion's blueprints will remain a secret, just as Vim's have all these years...
...Picasso's blue-period Mademoiselle B. (Suzanne Bloch) arrived in the nearby port of Santos, Chatô threw a shipboard champagne party to welcome them. In 1952, when Van Gogh's Schoolboy arrived in the capital city of Bahia, Chatô saw to it that school was let out and the new acquisition greeted by thousands of cheering students. Recently Brazil's President Juscelino Kubitschek turned over the presidential palace to greet another shipment of art, and Brazil's Foreign Minister staged a reception at Itamarati Palace to welcome a load of sculpture...
...apartment that is 20 years older than his own country's government. Put this apartment in the center of Rome about a block from where Julius Caesar was killed, where from his studio window he can see the church in which the first act of Tosca takes place. Let him become close friends with several Italian families. Let him visit the major museums and cities of Europe, and live the last three months in Venice...