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...consonants in the Hawaiian alphabet are h, k, 1, m, n, p, w. They are pronounced as they are in English. The vowels are pronounced a as in ah, e as in long a, i as in long e, o as in oh, and u as in oo. Aloha...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 20, 1959 | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

Graham was a shade too fatherly, Sheilah implies, to be fully satisfactory as a mate, but he did replace the U-brush with some H's and cured her of saying "Oo-er! Wot an 'at!" After that it was onward and upward-showgirl with C. B. Cochran and Noel Coward, playgirl with palace guardsmen and aristocrats. Trouble was that along with a pseudonym, the ex-Lily had concocted a sort of pseudo-family tree and she never knew when someone was going to cry, "Timber!" In 1933, she decided the U.S. was the best place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Honi Soit Qui Malibu | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

...some reviews. 'Oo are you trying to impress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 6, 1958 | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

...audience "orchestrate" with him-buzz to simulate loud strings, sing "tick, tick, tick" for a woodwind sound and "takata" for the brasses. "Oo," he commented, "seemed to me sort of bluish. When we sang 'takata' it seemed like a fiery orange." With a flick of the wrist in midsentence, he would bring in the 107-man New York Philharmonic to illustrate his points, rapidly skipping from Mozart to Stravinsky to Hindemith. The finale: a rousing performance of Ravel's Bolero, part of which he compared to "very high class hootchy-kootchy music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lennie's Kindergarten | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

...STEVENS is a deep-purple (D below middle C) jazz singer who wears wicked black sheaths and Vampira makeup, and is visually and musically the most striking of the new girl singers. Her audiovisual analogue would be a bass sax wrapped in a lace nightie. Using a vocabulary of oo's, ee's and ah's, she sings one entire side of her first LP (That Satin Doll; Atlantic) almost completely without words. This could sound like a cat trapped in a rain barrel, but somehow manages not to. In the best of her all-but-wordless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The New Canaries | 12/9/1957 | See Source »

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