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Word: magically (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shiny new world. What he grabs is Marilyn Monroe, who has stopped off on her slow progress from the Ozarks to Hollywood to earn some carfare as a "chantoosie" in a third-rate nightclub. Murray quivers to his boot heels when Marilyn slithers onstage to sing That Old Black Magic in a nasal whine, while fluttering a bilious green scarf in a deadly parody of Hildegarde's continental airs and graces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 3, 1956 | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

Graceful and accurate rendition, rich and brilliant color are the obvious attributes of such work. Children and connoisseurs see in them something more important, a magic, as of make-believe caught in mid-fancy and securely held...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: MAKE BELIEVE FROM MEISSEN | 8/27/1956 | See Source »

...that magic moment Ellington's Paul Gonsalves was ripping off a fast but insinuating solo on his tenor saxophone, his fancies dandled by a bounding beat on bass and drums (Jimmy Woode and Sam Woodyard). The Duke himself tweaked an occasional fragment on the high piano. Gradually, the beat began to ricochet from the audience as more and more fans began to clap hands on the offbeats until the crowd was one vast, rhythmic chorus, yelling its approval. There were howls of "More! More!" and there was dancing in the aisles. One young woman broke loose from her escort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mood Indigo & Beyond | 8/20/1956 | See Source »

...Edward Kennedy Ellington, jazzman, composer, and beyond question one of America's topflight musicians, is a magic name to two generations of Americans. His Mood Indigo, Sophisticated Lady, Solitude, and countless other dreamy tunes have become as familiar as any other songs since Stephen Foster. As jazz composer he is beyond categorizing-there is hardly a musician in the field who has not been influenced by the Ellington style. His style contains the succinctness of concert music and the excitement of jazz. His revival comes at a time when most bandleaders who thrived in the golden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mood Indigo & Beyond | 8/20/1956 | See Source »

Mortal Wounds. "What is interesting" about a masterpiece, Painter Annigoni argued, is always "the surface as the master left it, aged, alas! as all things age, but with the magic of the glazes preserved, and with those final accents which confer unity, balance, atmosphere, expression-in fact all the most important and moving qualities in a work of art. But after these terrible cleanings, little of all this remains . . . Falling upon their victim, [the scientific restorers] commence work on one corner, and soon proclaim a 'miracle'; for, behold, brilliant colors begin to appear. Unfortunately what they have found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Fashion for Flaying | 8/20/1956 | See Source »

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