Word: lockjaw
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...symbolized by the Tate show, has nothing to do with dubious cultural cliches like "postmodernist irony." There is no irony in Pre-Raphaelitism. Everything there, from the pale, swooning damozels down to the last grass stem, is the product of unutterable sincerity. Those painters would rather have died of lockjaw than paint anything that was not direct, heartfelt and didactic...
Even long after 1955, when Cole Porter wrote those lyrics, the word millionaire evoked images of power and plenty, of sprawling estates, Palm Beach tans, Locust Valley lockjaw accents and exclusivity. But millionaires, like almost everything else, are not what they used to be. A study released last week by U.S. Trust, an old-line Manhattan firm that specializes in handling O.P.M. (other people's money), reports that the nation's millionaire population, helped along by inflation, has in the past decade been growing at an average annual rate of 14%. Today, the company calculates, precisely...
...looping mixed metaphor when he boldly announced his own self-aggrandizing shot at the title in Advertisements for Myself'(1959). Hemingway, he wrote, "knew in advance, with a fine sense of timing, that he would have to campaign for himself, that the best tactic to hide the lockjaw of his shrinking genius was to become the personality of our time." Fitzgerald, on the other hand, was not much of a self-promoter He even seems to have taken a sad pleasure in his role as the unstrung harp of the jazz age. "I talk with the authority of failure...
...Eddle "Lockjaw" Davis. Davis was born to play the tenor sax, it seems. Eight months after he bought his first horn, he was playing in Monroe's Uptown House in Hariem where the greatest jazz musicians of the time would match one another in all-night "cutting" sessions. Davis withdrew from the music scene in the early sixties, but he came back after a year to become a soloist and road manager for the Count Basic Band. Now on his own, he puts down a blues-based, funky sound that has charged listeners for three decades. At Sandy's Jazz...
Next week Eddie (Lockjaw) Davis comes to town with a six-day stint at Sandy's Jazz Revival. Joe Williams is playing there now, Reservations are recommended for both shows. Sandy's is at 54 Cabot street in Beverly...