Word: purely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aisles and keeps them chuckling the morning after. The acting throughout the picture is superb with Ginger playing her three-faced part without dropping a stitch and the pseudo-sophisticated cadets, just Sue-Sue's age, throw a line at Ginger which would shame anything around the Square for pure brass and military strategy. Benchley's all too short appearance packs into a few shots what some comedians needs a lifetime to get across...
...Pure sex-appeal gets tiresome, consequently the enormous turnover of female singers in bands. How many really miss Martha Tilton, Edythe Wright or Connie Haines? And when Dinah Shore gets out of her element and tries to sing "Mississippi Mud," the handwriting is on the wall. Dinah may be able to stave off the ash-can for as long as five years; Hollywood may help. Unless she develops a more positive personality and style, however, she is a goner for sure...
...combination of many talents, a band where each player can give the theme a unique personal twist without destroying the musical continuity. When it's "in the groove," a good band rises out of its usual formulas (ordinary jazz is the most rigidly formalized routine in all music) into pure spontaneous variation, and that is the very stuff and foundation of great music. What makes old-fashioned, Bix-Beiderbecke-variety jazz an interest of the few is the same specialized form that keeps, say, Bach's "Art of the Fugue," from becoming widely popular...
Coffee ain't what it used to be, or at least it won't be in a short while. Coffee shortages have grown so acture around the Square that blends of pure coffee and chicory will soon be pressed into service, according to four restaurateurs who don't know where their next cup of coffee is coming from...
Last Saturday, however, those who criticized such stories as dribble and cried for something more than "a moral victory," got what they were yelling for, but it was pure fight and a refusal to know when it was licked that gave the Crimson the most thrilling victory seen around here in many years...