Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...starch-shirted and sport-shirted, coated and uncoated, they harmonized. They bobbed and ducked in unison, cupped their ears, blew pitch pipes, rolled their eyes, leaned on each other's shoulders, swayed and rose on their toes. As elevators stopped at quiet floors and the doors opened, Carolina Moon or Bidin' My Time blasted down the hall. From behind closed doors and in the men's roona bits and pieces of When You Wore a Tulip or The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise were audible.* On the street outside the hotel, quartets with such names...
...Cincinnati, a 24-year-old local radio show called Moon River was dropped last year from station WLW because it was thought to be out-of-date. Next week, because protests have never let up, syrupy Moon River will be back on the air at its usual time-midnight-with its usual freight of soothing nightcap music...
...equipped with suitable transmitting equipment, said Professor Lovell, the telescope could bounce a radar pulse off the moon and get an echo 2½ seconds later not as a faint pip but as a deafening roar. It might also get echoes from Venus and Mars. If there were a spaceship cruising near the moon, the telescope could track it easily. If spaceships ever cruise among the planets, such giant dishes may guide them through space like the radars that help airliners land on fogbound, present-day airports...
...piano bench higher because "This is a pretty high-class number." Pretty high-class for Liberace were something called Cornish Rhapsody (originally a British film score), emasculated versions of popular Chopin pieces, and Debussy's Clair de Lune, accompanied by five Madison Square Garden spotlights making like the moon. Hardly anybody had time to decide whether he was playing all the notes: everything he did (including a soft-shoe dance and a pair of vocal numbers) was over before it could begin to pall...
Broadway, all this time, was also happily in business. In Herman Wouk's Caine Mutiny Court Martial, it turned out first-rate theater. In John Patrick's Teahouse of the August Moon (which won the Pulitzer Prize and the Critics Award), it offered the pleasantest sort of popular entertainment. In Edward Chodorov's Oh, Men! Oh, Women! it told an amusing yarn of a psychoanalyst. In Robert Anderson's Tea and Sympathy, by mingling homosexuality with a radiant Deborah Kerr, it produced ideal matinee drama...