Word: oomph
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Ann Sheridan, 51, Hollywood's "Oomph Girl" of the 1930s, '40s and early '50s, whose red-haired beauty and deep velvet voice perfectly suited the gun molls and dance-hall girls she played in scores of potboilers (Torrid Zone) and some critical successes (King's Row), then, as her looks and the movieland whirl (including marriages to Actors Edward Norris and George Brent) faded, went into semiretirement until last year, when she married Actor Scott McKay and made a comeback in CBS's comedy series, Pistols 'n' Petticoats; of cancer...
...what his lyrics lack in depth his melodies make up in lilting appeal. Phillips' wife Michelle, a willowy ex-model, is the spiraling soprano; Denny Doherty, 24, sings a secure tenor. Anchor girl is rotund (200 lbs.) Cass Elliot, 23, whose ringing contralto gives the quartet its oomph. Together they build a buoyant vocal blend that floats easily through intricate harmonic shifts, toying with rhythms that are as fresh and bracing as ocean breezes. The quartet is now on a highly successful college tour, stands to make $1,000,000 this year...
...like a beguiling woman," he says with gusto. "Each woman has her own attributes, and each man, thank God, can make a choice." Weaver raves about such cities as New York ("You can get the best cheap meal and the lousiest expensive meal in the country"), Chicago ("Such terrific oomph") and San Francisco ("I can walk with pleasure"). But it will take more than love to save the cities. Weaver is under no illusion that the challenges that are now his will be met "in my lifetime-certainly not in my span of public office...
Affixed to a wall, the marble belly but ton, an omphalos with oomph, looks like a poached ostrich egg with the yel low plucked out. Leaflets shaped like navels showered from rooftops. As the crowd finally repaired to a popular café for disrepair, the mayor turned to a bystander and whispered: "I just don't understand why this thing had so much success...
...anything to do with freeing the male danseur of sexual suspicion it was these gentlemen, and, of course, Agnes de Mille. Martha Graham, as well, influenced more forms of the arts than people would like to admit. To witness Miss Graham standing still for one minute has all the oomph of a Nureyev dancing for an entire evening...