Word: outfit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...haunting him. The sight of the Moslems praying towards Mecca five times a day had given Foucauld, a freethinker from the age of 14 "a glimpse of something greater and truer than anything I had hitherto seen in the worldly world." He said goodbye to Mimi and rejoined his outfit, but after another tiff with his C.O., he quit the army for keeps. He turned to exploring. First mastering Hebrew, he posed as a rabbi in order to go into the Rif (the hill country of Morocco), something no more than half a dozen white men had done...
...Never Say "Never Again" Again (Benny Goodman & His Orchestra; Columbia). A brand-new recording by the old King of Swing, who has now assembled a star-studded outfit for a sentimental journey across the U.S.* Except for a slight tendency toward middle-aged conservatism (he plays fewer notes nowadays), 1953 Goodman sounds much like the 1938 variety. Songbird Helen Ward's voice is as sweet as ever...
Tautest sequence: the circus' climactic race across the guarded border in broad daylight. Under the guise of giving a parade, the whole ramshackle outfit tumbles past police watchtowers and barbed wire barricades in a helter-skelter jumble of sentry gunfire, jugglers, acrobats, clowns, performing dogs, ponies, elephants and lumbering circus wagons. At this point, the picture takes on a movingly nightmarish quality...
...Kimberly (in red gloves and shoes), who had made an entrance into Austin that was spectacular even by Texas standards. Included in the Kimberly entourage: a trailer loaded down with two Ferraris, a machine-shop truck, a station-wagon car complete with bar, and two expert mechanics. The whole outfit was decked out in Kimberly's favorite fire-engine...
Although several potenial oarsmen dropped out at the start of the spring season, Reynolds put together a first boat that is still together. "They're a smooth outfit, with lots of spirit, and right now I see no reason for breaking them...