Word: moonlighting
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...headquarters takes a dim view of all feudalistic imagery, no matter how lofty the castle, this and four equally affecting stanzas were banned in Japan last week. The news was likely to be calamitous only among Japanese schoolgirls, who favor the special love and lavender of Kojo no Tsuki ("Moonlight on the Ruined Castle") above all other popular songs...
Residents of Jerusalem's King David Hotel, strolling onto the terrace for a breath of night air and a final look at the moonlight-flooded city, heard night-jarring sounds. From a brightly lighted second-story window came angry voices. Curious newsmen stood listening to name-calling, the sound of face-slapping, of furniture being upset...
...Bard of Whitehorse. A month later, walking home from a party in the moonlight, a new line came to him: "There are strange things done in the midnight sun. . . . Though I did not know it [The Cremation of Sam McGee] was to be the keystone of my success." For more than a year "McGrew" and "McGee" lay with a sheaf of other manuscripts among Service's shirts. At last his "author complex" drove him to send them off to a publisher with oo to pay for 104 their private printing. The composing-room crew, who set up the ringing...
...seen Persia," said a dreamy G.I. to Correspondent Joel Sayre as their ship entered the Persian Gulf, ''was a swell big marble layout in the moonlight with a built-in pool. Birds was singing, but not too loud, and everything smelt wonderful. Some guys with turbans was taking it easy on cushions. They had whiskers and they was having a smoke out of them jars with the hose on them and they was smothered in wonderful-looking broads . . . wearing them long peekaboo pants. Sitting on the floor was a three-piece orchestra playing Midway music. Standing out front...
...silky-smooth, steel-fisted, honest Tony the Angel (George Raft). His devoted, carrot-topped singer Sally (Vivian Blaine) warbles her way through a series of top-notch new musical numbers, sweetened with the soft-shoe rhythms and barbershop harmonies of the period. But even such authentic musical backdrops as Moonlight Bay and Shine On, Harvest Moon, tinkled on pianolas or wheezed through the gaping morning-glory horns of pristine phonographs, are powerless to give conviction or pathos to the story of loyal Sally's heartbreak or Angel Raft's dalliance with the snobbish Nob Hill hussy, Harriet Carruthers...