Word: obbligato
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Imitation Surf. With close harmony and wordless rhythm, Norman Kaye and Frankie Ross cushion Mary Kaye's wailing obbligato, producing a pleasant blend of sound that may sometimes suggest the Andrews sisters doing a Pepsodent commercial; but it is just the sort of thinkproof entertainment that gamblers crave. The trio specializes in old standards (Heartaches, And the Angels Sing), and as an extra fail-safe against boredom, Frankie Ross often makes joking commentaries on the lyrics. His gags may not be immortal but usually get a laugh from someone who has just put his 459th consecutive nickel into...
...table hopping was livelier, and the members seemed happier (the club, founded in 1955 with the motto "Out but Happy," has changed its slogan to "In and Very Happy"). And through it all ran the insistent obbligato of job seekers on the make ("I hear there's an opening in Frank's office . . . What else ya got . . . ? When can we start . . . ? How about that...
...filled with flower petals and ticker tape (a trick the Brazilians learned from watching U.S. newsreels), and the Ficus trees along Rio Branco Avenue looked like maypoles under their drapery of serpentine and confetti. Music-from God Bless America to Handel's "Hallelujah" chorus, with a strong obbligato of carnival songs and sambas-rang out at every corner. Rio throbbed with happy emotion. "It was even bigger than our welcome for the Brazilian troops at the end of the war," said an awed carioca, "except that then there was lots of crying." Said Ike: "The most impressive entrance...
...Nikita Khrushchev or any traveling curiosity, he still savored the tumult and the shouting. In Hutchinson, Kans., he turned up in a hotel room surrounded by local admirers, some wearing "Like That Lyndon" buttons. As the formation of a local "Johnson for President" club was announced to an obbligato of rebel yells, Lyndon, who refuses to announce that he is a candidate, stood at the sidelines, beaming...
...Bloch: Concerto Grosso for Strings and Piano Obbligato (M); Mozart: Quintet in E flat, K. 614 (C); Hindemith: The Four Temperaments (E); Handel: Solomon (A); Imbrie: Quartet in B flat (C); Locatelli: Elegiac Symphony (W); Haydn: Trio...