Word: poppings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ministry of Culture sighted in on rock 'n' roll. Enough of this "vulgar, Western riot music." decreed the Culture cubes. And the songwriters got their orders: Give us the stuff of social significance. So Leipzig's Rene Dubianski, one of East Germany's more enterprising pop composers, turned out a sort of double-time waltz. Dance Instructors Helmut and Christa Seifert fitted Dubianski's efforts with some quickstep choreography, and the comrades from the Culture Ministry announced a "Soviet innovation...
...consists of equal parts dance, costume, and dialogue. The action starts at Mme. Dubonnet's Finishing School on the French Riviera, full of charmingly frivolous creatures of the Twenties ("They do chatter so!") gaily bent on little more than gossip, the Charleston and, of course, boys. The boys pop in and out innocuously enough as the shifts from the school to le plage and finally to the Cafe Patallon for the ball. It's all good...
...matter of fact, there was some justice to his complaint. The Crimson had men on first and second, one out, and two runs in, when Chet Boulris lofted a pop fly at the plate. The Jumbo catcher missed the ball cleanly, it fell in fair territory, then bounced foul. This clearly made it a foul ball, but the catcher snapped a throw to third base for a force play...
Over the last four years, Reporter readers have learned to expect such gamy fare from the paper's correspondent in Heart Butte, a tiny Indian community (pop. 250) hunkered in the hills of Montana's vast Blackfeet Reservation. The Heart Butte correspondent, 65-year-old Weasel Necklace, never lets them down. Writing under his other name, John Tatsey, he produces a column so lively, if ungrammatical, that it is widely reprinted. Sample Tatseyisms...
Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Mr. and Mrs. José Ferrer (Rosemary Clooney) and Gisele MacKenzie sing pop tunes, opera's Georgio Tozzi and Nicolai Gedda sing a duet from The Bartered Bride, Jose Iturbi plays Chopin, Liszt and Rameau on piano and harpsichord, Maria Tallchief and André Eglevsky dance a classical pas de deux. Color...