Word: music
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Johns paints the American flag in various colors, including the conventional ones. Or he paints targets, or numbers arranged in little squares. Or, tiring of that, he will put a frame around an opened book and paint the whole thing red. Or he will attach a music box to the back of a blue collage, with the key sticking through the front. "The music box played Silent Night," he remarks. "I fixed it to go 'ping, ting, click' instead." Prize exhibit in the Museum of Modern Art's "Recent Acquisitions" show last week was a Johns target...
...pulses from each instrument are fed to individual audio-frequency (audible sound) oscillators, changing the frequency of the pulses slightly. These modified audio tones are imposed on the high-frequency carrier wave sent out by the satellite's transmitter. Fed into a loudspeaker, they sound like strange, unbeautiful music...
Destry Rides Again (book by Leonard Gershe; music and lyrics by Harold Rome; direction and choreography by Michael Kidd) ups curtain on the Last Chance Saloon with the lady that's known as Frenchy (Dolores Gray) sashaying forward in a red-sequined gown to treat some of her plug-ugly admirers to a song. Within minutes she shoots the hat off one heckler, wraps a whipstalk around the skull of another. Then her saloonkeeper boy friend (Scott Brady) proceeds to give the sheriff an incurable case of lead poisoning. It is obviously high time for law and order...
...most successful merchandisers of charm to U.S. women is Slenderella International, whose 150 salons played soft music while vibrating tables shook excess inches off flabby matrons. Last week Slenderella itself underwent a slimming treatment. Patrols of Internal Revenue Service agents, watches carefully synchronized, swooped down on Slenderella salons in 24 cities, slapped on liens for $1,235,445 in unpaid taxes, picked up any cash handy. So swiftly did the action come that Slenderella managers and patrons were taken completely off guard. In New York City two women entered while a revenue agent was scooping up cash from the registers...
...Fair Lady raises a topper, The Music Man sounds a trumpet, and West Side Story swings a switchblade in three memorable musical salutes...