Word: melts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world's strangest streams, the Mojave (pronounced Mohahvee) is born in the snow melt of the San Bernardinos, disappears underground, here and there marking its strange northward course by popping unaccountably above the .surface of the sand. At one place, east of Victorville, Calif., it forms a subterranean reservoir as big as Tahoe, the state's largest lake...
...Most Intimate (Charlie Shavers, trumpet, and strings; Bethlehem). A skillful jazzman, whose muted flights were jewels of chamber jazz in the late '305, now playing wide-open. Backed by Sy Oliver's strings, Shavers' brazen tones soar, tumble and melt as they extract the moods of tunes by Harold Arlen and Johnny Green...
...from Hong Kong, Chiang dons his khaki cape, enters his 1949 Cadillac, and makes the 25-minute drive to his office in the Ministry of National Defense in downtown Taipei (pop. 500,000). Soldiers of the security force appear as if by magic along the route, then as magically melt away after he has passed. Past a dark bronze bust of himself on the stair landing, he walks quickly and alone to his third-floor office, where the blue velvet curtains are always drawn for security...
Since then the girls have worked as hard as ever. Gut-wrenching wind sprints, body-building exercises, clowning relays with the girls swimming in pajamas or blowing up balloons between laps, all combine to melt the teen-age fat from their hips, harden their midriffs and toughen their arms. Somehow they also find the strength to practice the fine points of flip turns and racing starts...
...symbolize civilization. The natives realize that instead of being dread magic and tools of humiliation, the Rantz line is really for laughs. Versatile Novelist Mankowitz, a scriptwriter, playwright and dealer in Wedgwood, is too soft a man for tough satire, and lets his shrewd observations on the human condition melt into sugary fantasy. In the end Laugh Till You Cry falls flat somewhere between Walter Mitty and Dean Swift, but it is good for an hour of fun and an occasional reflection on the perverseness of civilized life...