Word: rhythm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...name (old one: Jo Ann Kristof), learned to gush cute quotes ("I'm crazy about mustard sandwiches ... I sing sad songs saddest when I'm happy") and do a very fair imitation of throaty, top-ranking Jazz Singer June Christy. To the tub-thumping rhythm of an intense promotional campaign by RCA Victor, Jennie just finished a month of bouncing about the country buttering up disk jockeys and celebrating the release of her first LP (called Jennie, and decorated with a torchlit photo of its star nervously inhabiting a low-cut black gown...
...left, pulling the orchestra as if the musicians were marionettes on a hundred invisible strings. With his left hand shaking, soothing, plucking, dancing, he shaped phrases, tossed cues, whipped his men to new intensities. What he did above all was to keep an inexorable grip on the tempo and rhythm, and, never aiming at stunts, he tried to speak with Beethoven's voice. He succeeded perhaps better than any other living conductor...
Laverne Baker, the grand lady of the rhythm world, emerged from the wings in a dress sprayed on by an atomizer. And the tumult shook all gods from their cynical periphery...
...Wyeth was an illustrator; for decades before his death in an auto crash in 1945, he was the best illustrator in the country. An age that tends to value "composition" (meaning, roughly, an apparent rhythm, repetition and balance of lines and colors, comparable to harmonious music) above all else tends to belittle illustration (which subordinates all other values to imaginative drama). Yet, historically, illustration is half of art, and the greatest paintings of Europe have been illustrations of classical mythology and the New Testament...
Everybody in a whole cell block Was dancing to the jailhouse rock . . . [Mumble, mumble] crash, boom, bang, The whole rhythm section was a purple gang...